‘They sacrificed their freedom’: remembering incarcerated black activists

Artist Sophia Dawson has created artwork using correspondence and ephemera from jailed activists to call attention to their situation, past and presentWhen artists choose to deal with the black liberation movement, it’s most often the legacy: the freedoms, the historical posters, the imagery. But it’s the present, as the artist and activist Sophia Dawson, tells the Guardian, that is just as tragic.“I used to sleep in my African American history class,” she says. “I