*Note Date Correction. Capturing the essence of the Great Migration – the movement of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North following the outbreak of World War I, artist Jacob ...

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, ...

“If at times my artworks do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man’s continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, April 1 (Reuters) - American artist Jacob Lawrence's Great Migration series goes on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) this week in a rare exhibition showcasing all his ...

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts has revealed four powerful performances set to kick off the 2025-2026 PEAK Series. Step Afrika! returns to Dreyfoos Hall October 9 with The ...

Step Africa performs "The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence" on November 2nd and 3rd at Zellerbach Hall. This celebrated step dance company celebrates its 30th anniversary with a powerful ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — One hundred years ago, African-Americans began a mass exodus from the rural South, heading north in search of economic opportunity and social equality. The Museum of Modern Art is ...

The museum catches up to the vital lessons of the Harlem Renaissance, with its American, European and African exchanges and its cultural solidarity. By Holland Cotter Such creatively charged ...