"Freedom Fighters All Stars - Kwame Ture"

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

Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) (1941-1998) He gave us the words "Black Power." Born in Trinidad and raised in Harlem, Stokely Carmichael was just 19 when he took his first Freedom Ride and became the youngest person jailed for attempting to integrate a "whites only" counter in Mississippi. As chairman of SNCC, his call for Black Power became the battle cry for liberation movements worldwide. He later took the name Kwame Ture in honor of African leaders Kwame Nkrumah and Sékou Touré, spending his final years traveling Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean calling for freedom for all oppressed peoples.

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