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The Healing Project, a fundamentally abolitionist project, explores the structures of systemic racism and the prison industrial complex. This story first aired February 2023.
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.” ...
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 ...
People will be able to meet the artist in person at her pop-up studio at the Fitchburg Art Museum this Saturday and Sunday as part of the city’s Open Studios, a free, self-guided, art discovery ...
A monument unveiled in Lexington on Juneteenth honors Lewis and Harriet Hayden, two formerly enslaved Lexingtonians who ...
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 ...
“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.
Harriet and Lewis Hayden left in 1844 with the help of the Underground Railroad and became prominent abolitionists in Boston, ...