Returning to the south: what can ‘reverse migration’ do for Black Americans?

Charles Blow in South to Black Power. Photograph: HBO

From 1915 to 1970, an estimated 6 million Black Americans left their homes in the south, fleeing Jim Crow laws and racial violence to seek out new beginnings in the north and the west.

Five decades later, the New York Times columnist and author Charles Blow says it’s now time for these Black Americans and their descendants to return.