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.

Find full transcript and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/sa-roc-margaret-burroughs-sleeping-boy.html

Image credit: Margaret Burroughs, Sleeping Boy (also known as Mexican Boy) (detail), 1953, linocut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008.115.28

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Sa-Roc and Margaret Burroughs’s Sleeping Boy

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