"Freedom Fighters All Stars - Jack Johnson"

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

Jack Johnson (1878-1946) The first Black world heavyweight boxing champion. Jack Johnson held the title from 1908 to 1915, at the height of the Jim Crow era. His 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the "fight of the century," and when Johnson defeated the white former champion, race riots erupted across America as whites attacked Black people simply for celebrating the victory. With his trademark golden smile, Johnson took on a society and a government that did not want to see Black progress. They tried to break him with charges, exile and persecution, but his legend only grew. According to filmmaker Ken Burns, "for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African American on Earth."

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