New GRTC bus art's message is 'hope and love and freedom'
On the streets of Richmond, a GRTC bus wrapped with a design produced by young activists in the city and local artists is now in circulation.
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N. Philly monument honors women serving long prison sentences
WHYY By An exhibition at the Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia, "On the Day They Come Home," features women who have lived through long prison sentences. (Mark Strandquist/Peoples Paper Co-op) Paulette Carrington says she’s not the same person she was when she was convicted of homicide at age 16. Sentenced to life in prison, Carrington says she could have easily languished and lost all hope of ever reentering society. But two things got her through her time at the Pennsylva...
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They are their own monuments
>> Tess Thackara, The New York Times Published: 04 May 2021 12:48 PM BdST Updated: 04 May 2021 12:48 PM BdST Deborah Williss photographs in "Black Women and Work," installed in one of the parks run by the Village of Arts and Humanities, in Philadelphia, April 28, 2021. In a section of North Philadelphia, near an underpass and up a soaring stoop painted sky blue, Ms. Nandi’s home is decorated with pictures of civil rights heroes and political icons — Malcolm X, Queen Nefertiti, Lenin....
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