"Freedom Fighters All Stars - Ida B. Wells"

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

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) Ida B. Wells was a journalist, educator and anti-lynching activist who refused to be silenced. After three of her friends were lynched in Memphis, she launched a decades-long crusade to expose the horrors of lynching through investigative journalism, putting her own life at risk to tell the truth. She co-founded the NAACP and fought for voting rights until her final days.