We went to this month's Phillips After 5, titled "And the Migrants Kept Coming" at the Phillips Collection in Dupont Circle. Guests got an opportunity to explore "People on the Move: Beauty and Struggle" in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series. Attendees could add their origins to a large world map to share their migration story in an activity with President Lincoln’s Cottage. We snapped Brian Miller with The Philanthropy Roundtable's Sarah Spinner.

Jacob Lawrence set to work on a 60-panel series portraying the Great Migration, the movement between the World Wars when more than a million African-Americans moved from the rural South to the industrial North in search of a better life. The mass exodus, prompted by wartime shortages and oppressive conditions for blacks in the South, was the largest population shift of African-Americans since slavery. Here, Georgetown University Law Center's Juliette Herault with World Bank's Uriel Kejsefman.

This fall, The Phillips Collection presented all 60 panels of The Migration Series, reuniting the Phillips’ odd-numbered panels with the Museum of Modern Art’s even-numbered panels from their split acquisition in 1942. Shaped by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this exhibition explores the historical, literary, sociocultural, aesthetic and contemporary manifestations of migration that underlie Lawrence’s powerful visual narrative. It was organized in collaboration with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Here, British Embassy's Helene Liddington and Tessa Glenn with FRANdata's Kate Bartosik and Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP's Lee Bridgett.

Phillips After 5 is a lively mix of art and entertainment, including live music, food and a cash bar, on the first Thursday of each month. Guests also got to enjoy the sultry sounds of rising artist Saba Abraha of How Things Fly with producer Mikeyy.

Alfredo Flores contributed to this issue.