A new effort by the Art for Justice Fund will bring award-winning artists, nonprofit leaders, and formerly incarcerated activists together in a pilot program with the goal of changing how people think ...

For almost 10 years, the People’s Paper Co-op has used art to help women get out of jail, and to get people’s criminal records expunged. Courtney Bowles explains how the People's Paper Co-op invites ...

In 2017, philanthropist Agnes Gund sold her favorite Roy Lichtenstein painting to hedge fund investor Steven Cohen for $165 million in what was no ordinary private sale. Gund used a portion of the ...

Five years ago, nonprofit Illinois Humanities asked state residents to imagine a world without mass incarceration, a city without jails. This initiative to think about criminal justice as something ...

A portrait of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall includes mung beans. A portrait of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor features dried red peppers for her red lips. These two “seedy” ...

Amid celebrity performances, rousing speeches, and thousands of people descending on Chicago for the annual Democratic National Convention this week, Democrats adopted little-noticed but significant ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Not that long ago, in the summer of 2020, the moment seemed ripe for meaningful criminal-justice reform in America. Millions of people joined demonstrations ...