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Wash Post: Still Looking for ‘Black Mecca,’ the New Great Migration
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8:13Now PlayingIn recent decades, some African Americans who left the Northern cities their elders migrated to for the South, now say they’re not sure they’ve found the “Black meccas” they were looking for.
Interviewing several African Americans who moved to Georgia, North Carolina and Texas, the Washington Post found that, “They moved South either with a new job already in hand or with hope that they could find work in some of the nation’s fastest-growing cities. Many also moved in search of affordable housing that could help their families build the kind of generational wealth their parents and grandparents in the North were locked out of.”
Emmanuel Felton, race and ethnicity reporter at The Washington Post, joins Charles Blow on “Prime” to discuss.
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