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Hip Hop 50 Boombox, by Bayeté Ross Smith

Contribute your favorite songs on freedom and liberation alongside your perspective on climate change to Bayeté Ross Smith’s mix tapes on the climate change crisis, part of a life-size sculpture made out of sugarcane and cotton boombox replicas. Bayeté will collect recordings all day and mingle your favorite songs and voices in with pre-recorded perspectives from the participating artists, climate experts, and MJN.

Hip Hop 50 Boombox’s sculptures are made out of sustainable packaging material, in collaboration with Pulp Works. The sculpture and mixtapes celebrate 50 years of HipHop culture and HipHop’s role as a global freedom movement for African Descendant people, as well as other marginalized people around the globe.

Visit HipHop50Boombox and scan QR codes for mixtapes and other #GotThePowerBoomboxes.

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Bayeté Ross Smith: confronting bias in visual journalism
Bayeté Ross Smith: confronting bias in visual journalism

Artist spotlight: learn about Bayeté Ross Smith, a 2024 Street Work Earth participant and visual journalist challenging bias. As part of Street Works, Bayeté is expanding on his Hip Hip 50 Boombox series blending music and sculptures made of sugar and cotton — two of the largest cash crops of American and European colonial powers.

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