"Freedom Fighters All Stars - W.E.B. Du Bois"

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

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) Scholar. Activist. Co-founder of the NAACP. W.E.B. Du Bois was the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard and spent his life fighting for racial equality through scholarship and organizing. His concept of "double consciousness" and his work on The Crisis magazine shaped how we understand the Black American experience. He died in Ghana the night before the March on Washington, having dedicated 95 years to the fight.