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"A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration"

From 1910 through 1970, about six million Blacks fled the south toward safety and prosperity. ‘Legacies of The Great Migration’ is the focus of the Baltimore Museum of Art’s latest exhibit. We get a preview …. and learn how artists Akea Brionne and Robert Pruitt uncover and illustrate their personal connections to the past.

Links:A Movement in Every Direction, Legacies of the Great Migration, Opening Day Lecture, Oct. 30, with Isabelle Wilkerson, Community Day for families, Oct. 30.

Sheilah Kast is the host of On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am.
Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'