ENCORE: Harlem on My Mind: Jacob Lawrence (2021)

<p>Into America was nominated for a 2022 NAACP Image Award! We’re finalists in the Outstanding News and Information Podcast category, and we need your vote. Go to <a href="https://vote.naacpimageawards.net/">vote.naacpimageawards.net</a> to cast your ballot today.</p><p>In February 2021, Into America launched Harlem on My Mind, a series that followed four figures from the Harlem Renaissance who defined Blackness for themselves and what it means to be Black in America today.</p><p>The story began in December 2020, when host Trymaine Lee acquired something he coveted for years: a numbered print titled <i>Schomburg Library</i> by American icon Jacob Lawrence. The print came with a handwritten dedication to a man named Abram Hill. Who was Abram Hill? How did he know Jacob Lawrence? Did their paths cross at the famed Schomburg Library?</p><p>What followed was a journey of discovery, through conversations with friends, historians and experts, to understand the interconnected lives of Black creators in and around the Harlem Renaissance. And it started with Jacob Lawrence, a child of the Great Migration who was nurtured by the great artists and ideas of the period. Two women who knew Lawrence well, art historian Dr. Leslie King-Hammond and artist Barbara Earl Thomas, reflected on his life, death and contributions to Black culture.</p><p>As Into America gears up for our 2022 Black History series, Reconstructed – a look at the legacy of the Reconstruction era –we wanted to revisit Harlem on My Mind and share it with you again. </p><p>Special thanks to the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. </p><p>(Original release date: February 4, 2021)</p><p><strong>Further Listening:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/podcast/harlem-my-mind-jacob-lawrence-n1256712" target="_blank"><strong>Harlem on My Mind: Jacob Lawrence</strong></a></li><li><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/podcast/harlem-my-mind-arturo-schomburg-n1257390" target="_blank"><strong>Harlem on My Mind: Arturo Schom