There's no historical marker outside Jacob Lawrence's childhood home in New York City's Harlem ... "but also that they were also going to challenge that new place to live up to its own possibilities." ...

Jacob Lawrence, "We crossed the River at McKonkey’s Ferry 9 miles above Trenton . . . the night was excessively severe . . . which the men bore without the least murmur . . .

I was around 8 years old the first time I can remember seeing Jacob Lawrence's work. My mother had a print of his, "The Lovers," hanging on her bedroom wall. The colors are what I remember most.

One of America's most renowned Modernist painters, Jacob Lawrence, is best known for his powerfully empathic The Migration Series, which chronicled the mass movement of African Americans from the ...