Faith Ringgold painted a vibrant mural at the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island. A few years later, it was ...

As activists struggle against America’s crisis of mass incarceration, a new documentary relates the remarkable life of a painting created some five decades ago to give inspiration to imprisoned ...

As the film tells it, the story of this mural is also that of the crisis at Rikers and of “prison” in spectacular decay — ...

Artist Faith Ringgold ... helped her sew early on, and Ringgold would go on to use the process to chart her travels, her love of art history, the horrors of the Middle Passage, and a great ...

Faith Ringgold reached the height of her fame in ... That commission is funded by Art for Justice, an organisation supported by the filmmaker's mother, the philanthropist and MoMA president ...