"Freedom Fighters All Stars - Fred Hampton"

From the Freedom Fighters All-Stars collection by Embrace Boston E250 Living Archive featured artist and CBS Boston featured Dorchester native GBfree.

Each piece in this collection reimagines Black liberation leaders as the All-Stars they always were. Hand-painted on canvas using acrylic, oil and paint markers with no preliminary sketching, every piece is a one-of-a-kind original created in a few hours of focused work.

The signature yellow halo honors their sacrifice. The raised fist symbolizes the ongoing struggle. The silhouetted figures in the background represent the movements they built and the people who carried their work forward.

Hip-hop taught us history. Now we paint it.

24 x 30 inches | Acrylic on Canvas | Original Artwork

Fred Hampton (1948-1969) "I am a revolutionary." Fred Hampton was chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and one of the most dynamic young leaders of his generation. At just 21 years old, he organized free breakfast programs for children, free medical clinics and political education classes on the West Side of Chicago. He built the Rainbow Coalition, uniting Black, Puerto Rican and poor white activists across racial lines. The FBI saw him as a threat and targeted him through COINTELPRO. On December 4, 1969, Chicago police raided his apartment and shot him in his bed while he slept. He was 21 years old. They killed him because they feared what he was building.

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