In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...

D.G. Martin discusses The Mecklenburg Resolves and The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence as America's 250th birthday ...

The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...

With the subject line "Fork in the Road," approximately two million state workers have received an email asking them to voluntarily resign while continuing to receive their salaries until September 30 ...

The global movement of people seeking to flee tyranny, poverty, and violence, or to search for freedom in a distant land, is ...

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