*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 ...

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 ...

Step Afrika! presents the Chicago premiere of The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence at The Auditorium. This 90-minute performance explores the early 20th-century migration of African Americans ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. One dance company is fusing traditional step ...

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 ...

Marking the centennial of the beginning of the Great Migration, the multi-decade mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North, The Museum of Modern Art presents One-Way ...

Jacob Lawrence, “The Migration Series” (1940-41), panel 52: “One of the largest race riots occurred in East St. Louis” (1941), casein tempera on hardboard, 18 x 12 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, ...

There's no historical marker outside Jacob Lawrence's childhood home in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. But Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using its hallmark style of percussive dance-theater, Step Afrika!’s The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence tells the story of one of the largest movements of people in United States history, ...

Using its hallmark style of percussive dance-theater, Step Afrika!’s The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence tells the story of one of the largest movements of people in United States history, ...