#  Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory 

 



  [### Yelaine Rodriguez, "From Mal De Ojo: Point B of The Door of No Return"

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   ![Yelaine Rodriguez, "From Mal De Ojo: Point B of The Door of No Return", 2022. Courtesy of the artist.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/ed-000000030006.jpg?itok=B6V7pSey) 

 



 

 

   [### William Earle Williams, "Interior, Fort Morgan, Battle Site, Mobile Bay, Alabama"

 ](/resource/william-earle-williams-interior-fort-morgan-battle-site-mobile-bay-alabama) 

   ![William Earle Williams, "Interior, Fort Morgan, Battle Site, Mobile Bay, Alabama", 2003. Courtesy of the artist.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/nurfc_williams_interior_fort_morgan.jpg?itok=axR6JwU0) 

 



 

 

   [### Isaac Julien, "Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (Madison Washington, The Heroic Slave)"

 ](/resource/isaac-julien-lyrics-sunshine-and-shadow-madison-washington-heroic-slave) 

   ![Isaac Julien, "Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (Madison Washington, The Heroic Slave)", 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, and Victoria Miro.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/julien_lyrics-of-sunshine-and-shadow-madison-washington-the-heroic-slave-2020_ij00159pg.jpg?itok=yyGy92Lf) 

 



 

 

   [### Omar Victor Diop, "Frederick Douglass, 'Diaspora' series"

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   ![Omar Victor Diop, "Frederick Douglass, 'Diaspora' series", 2014. (c) Omar Victor Diop, Courtesy Galerie MAGNIN-A, Paris.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/frederickdouglass_omarvictordiop.jpg?itok=wsF09gwX)