Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Image by Dan Watkins Photography, courtesy Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Image by Dan Watkins Photography, courtesy Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Image by Dan Watkins Photography, courtesy Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Helina Metaferia
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Bibliography:
Brooklyn Public Library’s Arnie Goldwag Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality Collection:
• “Bring Peace to Vietnam” Button, undated.
• “Jobs for All March on Washington” Button, 1969.
• “March on Washington” Button, November 1969.
• “Solidarity Vietnam” Button, undated.
• “STOP US Intervention” Button, 1969.
• Text in The Brooklyn Press flyer, “Mass rally tonight!” July 20, 1963.
Brooklyn Public Library’s Rioghan Kirchner Civil Rights in Brooklyn Collection:
• “Biggest Protest March in History!,” front page, November 1963.
Northeastern University Special Collections:
• Eubanks, Musa, Pages from Africa’s Past – Impact on our Present, 1976.
• Front cover and page 13 of The Onyx Newspaper, “Special Issue: Black Students at N.U.”, 1973.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs, and Prints Division:
• Unknown photographer, “Like I mean man, justice!," undated.
• Unknown photographer, “Picketing the White House to Protest the Lynchings of African Americans,” July 1946.Exhibitions
Syntropy. 21 Nov.-20 Dec. 2025, Praise Shadows Art Galley, Brookline, MA.When Civilizations Heal. 6 May-17 Aug. 2025, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ.

