African Americans carry a particular gravity in the Diaspora. Most cannot trace a specific village. Most cannot speak the tongue their great-great-grandparents dreamed in. Yet from this very deprivation came one of the most influential cultures the modern world has ever produced...
Region Focus
African Americans
Population
~46M
Reach
USA · Canada
From the cotton fields of Mississippi to the brownstones of Harlem, from the migrations to Chicago to the protests in Selma a people who built a country and were never paid for it.
"My great-grandmother could not read. She memorised every Negro spiritual. That, too, is a library."