Art As Orchestrating Abolition, Decarceration, and Community “If art wasn’t the right tool [for social impact], it wouldn’t be so underfunded, so undervalued, so ignored and misunderstood.” ...

The Healing Project, a fundamentally abolitionist project, explores the structures of systemic racism and the prison industrial complex. This story first aired February 2023.

Rasheed’s proposal for the public art installation was shrouded in controversy from the get-go, with community members accusing the city’s Economic Development Corporation and Public Design Commission ...

Rasheed’s proposal for the public art installation was shrouded in controversy from the get-go, with community members accusing the city’s Economic Development Corporation and Public Design Commission ...

“Negro Life at the South," an 1859 painting by Eastman Johnson, depicted enslaved people in a D.C. courtyard. Intended to humanize them, it was coopted by slavery defenders.

A monument unveiled in Lexington on Juneteenth honors Lewis and Harriet Hayden, two formerly enslaved Lexingtonians who ...

Like other abolitionists, Deevers said the point of the bills is not to punish women or a particular class of people. “We’re criminalizing an act, and that act is murder,” he said.

Many people involved in the abortion debate say a movement of abortion 'abolitionists' who want to punish women for having abortions is gaining influence, emboldened by the end of Roe vs. Wade and ...

Harriet and Lewis Hayden left in 1844 with the help of the Underground Railroad and became prominent abolitionists in Boston, ...

A renowned abolitionist and author of New York Times Bestseller “We Do This ‘Til We Free Us,” Kaba notes the importance of art in movement work; not merely art for art’s sake but for its ...

Library of Congress // Getty Images; Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images. 16 women abolitionists you may not know about. Portraits of Charlotte L. Forten Grimke, Lucretia Mott, and Lydia ...