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Art Review | Jacob Lawrence
Visions of a People in Motion
By HOLLAND COTTER
Published: December 28, 2007
Jacob Lawrence painted “The Migration of the Negro,” 60 small pictures in tempera on hardboard panels, in what seems like a flash. The series was completed in 1941, after about a year of work in a cold-water studio at 33 West 125th Street in Harlem. Lawrence was 24. With its visual tact and deep emotion, it was instantly recognized as a tour de force, a new American epic. It made his career.
African Americans’ Struggles, Triumphs Shown in Photo Exhibition
USINFO Staff Writer
By Lauren Monsen
27 November 2007
Homeward bound
Dee Dee Bridgewater, American jazz diva, looks to Mali for inspiration
By Siddhartha Mitter
October 14, 2007
The idea of returning to Africa has been an essential theme in American arts and culture ever since Africans were brought to this country. But it is a theme that has dwelt mainly at the margins of mainstream culture, whether by political choice of the artists involved or from lack of interest and commercial appeal outside (or even sometimes within) the African-American community.
