'Black Bus': Hip-hop for #BlackLivesMatter

Youth artists and producers filmed the hip hop video, "Black Bus," to spotlight the historical context of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. The lyrics (“Sitting in the back for too long / To the front of the bus!”) channel Rosa Parks, whose refusal to sit in the back of the bus became a metaphor for the civil rights movement. The song references figures from Harriet Tubman to Oscar Grant, and has an air that combines celebration and protest. "This is my redemption… mentally, physically / Give [my people] back their purity / blood vessels through the poetry / ready to abolish mental slavery."  See the video, produced in collaboration with RYSE Youth Center.

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