article_snippet.sent: "The Migration of the Negro," is a series of 60 small paintings with text depicting the lives of millions of pre-World War II blacks as they moved from the oppressive South to the promise of a better life in the North.
article_snippet.sent: One frame in particular, No. 22, shows three black men dressed in their Sunday best, handcuffed, heads bowed standing in front of a window adorned with prison bars.
article_snippet.sent: In 1971, Marvin Gaye cracked the Top 10 on the pop charts with "Inner City Blues," which included the lines: .
article_snippet.sent: Woven in the comedic deliveries of Richard Pryor, Dick Gregory and Dave Chappelle; saturated within the prose of Lorraine Hansberry, Maya Angelou and Shonda Rhimes; heard in soulful cries of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" to John Legend standing on an Oscar stage singing "one day, when the glory comes it will be ours.
article_snippet.sent: For decades, the works of black artists have explicitly talked about the Baltimores of the country and though black artists work has been celebrated and curated, the message remains lost.