Van, who had turned his father’s fascination with photography into his profession, presented President Obama with two inscribed black-and-white portraits he’d taken: one of Rosa Parks, and the other of his mother with Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz. The president’s senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, who hailed from one of the most prominent Black families in Chicago, told Myrlie the president planned to hang the portraits in his private office.
