'Hey, Black people exist here': Black population makes significant gains in US West

LOS ANGELES – Sophia Calloway moved from Cincinnati to Phoenix last year to be closer to her parents, who relocated from Ohio to the Arizona desert three years earlier for new jobs.

Bernadette Williams-York departed Alabama for Seattle in 2018 to take a prestigious post at the University of Washington.

C.T. Taylor jumped from one coastal megalopolis, New York, to another, Los Angeles, to work for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2017.