Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter The museum catches up to the vital ...

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Sherrilyn Ifill, and Cornell Brooks at “Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and the Legacy of Jim Crow: The Long History of the Artist’s Concerns” on April 15, 2015, at the ...

Washington’s most distinguished stage production about the city’s favorite modernist painting cycle was born at a synchronized swimming competition in 2010. That’s when C. Brian Williams, the founder ...

Jacob Lawrence, “Panel 3” (1940–41) (all images courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York) I am only one generation removed from the history of African American migrants who, between 1917 and 1970, ...

This microfilm collection documents the artistic and teaching career of African American painter Jacob Lawrence. Included are biographical materials and awards; correspondence; writings and speeches ...