"Freedom Fighters All Stars - Mary McLeod Bethune"

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

Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) Educator. Advisor to presidents. Institution builder. Mary McLeod Bethune started a school for Black girls with $1.50 and five students. That school became Bethune-Cookman University. She founded the National Council of Negro Women and advised Presidents Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman on civil rights and education. She built power through education.

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