Sa-Roc and Margaret Burroughs’s “Sleeping Boy” | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/stories/sound-thoughts-art/sa-roc-and-margaret-burroughss-sleeping-boy
Rapper Sa-Roc’s music speaks to different aspects of Black experience, including the vulnerability of many Black kids—similar to the boy in Margaret Burroughs’s linocut, who hides himself. Her song Forever invites listeners not to hide, but to shine and share their “inner light” with the world.
And I thought about the many young Black boys, like Tamir Rice, and Trayvon Martin