Quotes of the Day
Friday, Mar. 25, 2011
The notion of the North and its cities as the promised land has been a powerful part of African-American life ... now it all seems to be passing by.
- CLEMENT PRICE,
- professor of history at Rutgers University, on the movement of blacks from Northern cities to the South; the percentage of the U.S.'s black population living in the South has hit its highest point in half a century, according to Census data
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