In partnership with For Freedoms, Silkroad is launching four compelling billboards in Los Angeles that tell the story—from a visual perspective—of the fraught legacy of American Imperialism and the quiet histories of those who toiled to build this country.

Today is #ElectionDay 🗳️

Ride, walk, drive, or march to VOTE ☀️

Find your voting location at findmypollsite.vote.org

Billboard by derrick adams “Ode to Bayard Rustin”

For Freedoms (For Freedoms) is an anti-partisan, unifying force combining art and politics to encourage civic engagement among the creatively-inclined.

#NationalArtsAndHumanitiesMonth mellon.org/grant-story/yo…

Share your favorite banned books with us 👇 #BannedBooksWeek

FREEDOM IS NOT GUARANTEED 📚

The freedom to read is essential to our democracy.
It is continuously under attack.

Marking the start of #BannedBooksWeek , artist Xaviera Simmons Studio' billboard 'Freedom is Not Guaranteed' was installed on the exterior of DC's MLK Library.

On #YomKippur , the Jewish Day of Atonement, we reflect on the need for peace and reconciliation for all.

Billboard by wyattgallery.eth installed in Boston, MA for The Highest Form of Wisdom is Kindness, a For Freedoms campaign aimed at combating antisemitism.

How a multi-faith, multiracial team of artists is waging a nationwide billboard campaign to fight antisemitism (via The Forward) bit.ly/44SBh5a

NO TOPIC IS MORE URGENT TODAY THAN DEMOCRACY

Today on #DemocracyDay and #VoterRegistrationDay , we spotlight For Freedoms artist Jenny Holzer's light projections titled, 'THE PEOPLE,' displayed on the facade of the Hirshhorn museum from dusk to 11 pm through September 21.

Join us starting today for the inaugural edition of PHOTOFAIRS New York, where we'll be featuring artwork by For Freedoms Fellows McKayla Chandler, Emanuel Hahn, Eric Hart Jr., Maya June Mansour, and Da'Shaunae Marisa: bit.ly/482p2px

After the U.S. seized their lands more than 150 years ago, the Diné (Navajo) people embarked on the Long Walk—a 300-mile trek to exile. Photographer Dakota Mace shares their stories
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After decades as a photojournalist in the Middle East, Tanya Habjouqa turns her lens to the place of her youth, where she says, “If you weren’t part of the privileged few, you were forgotten.”
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Taking its name from the Talmud, our next billboard campaign 'The Highest Form of Wisdom is Kindness,' invites artists @hankwthomas Zoe Buckman Carrie Mae Weems Deborah Kass is now on Threads & more to create billboards that aspire towards a world free of antisemitism. ocula.com/magazine/art-n…

In a land shaped by colonialism, photographer Christopher Gregory Rivera hopes to foster a “better understanding of where we are and who we are—and where we could possibly go.”
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As many as 20,000 Chinese workers were recruited to build North America’s railways. Their descendants are still fighting for recognition, says Philip Cheung in the August issue of @natgeo: nationalgeographic.com/culture/articl…

Visual listening is a concept that asks participants to connect deeply with the body.

For Freedoms work with Fotografiska New York to harness this idea, creating a group exhibition based on feeling and performance. Until October 22: bit.ly/3O9WNxu

Image: Eric Gottesman

“I’m going to love people so passionately — until a part of me will always live outside of the gates of Angola.”

A new Opinion video shares prisoners’ stories and asks the question: How much punishment is enough? nyti.ms/44QENxC

Using a special technique, this photographer makes luminous images of Mexico’s comunidades originárias
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Love is the message.

Nikon F2 and Kodak Gold 200. #ChaosPhotos