“Subversion & The Art of Slavery Abolition,” curated by Dr. Michelle Commander at the Schomburg Center of NYPL, showcases how abolitionists in the 18th and 19th centuries harnessed literature, visual arts, music, and even covert resistance to expose slavery’s horrors and galvanize the public against it.

A curated list of songs spanning genres and decades that reflect abolitionist themes (from Nina Simone’s “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free” to Noname’s “Rainforest”).

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With her book, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Nicole R. Fleetwood offers a powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of people rendered invisible by America’s prison system.

The CUNY Public Science Project created this zine, titled Freedom Dreaming, asking students to contribute a page that reflected their own experiences as CUNY students, as community members, as family members across themes of education for liberation and educational justice.  — Website