Columbia Law School's Inaugural Artist-In-Residence: A Conversation with Bayeté Ross Smith on Social Justice, Racial Injustice and Virtual Reality (VR)

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Cover Photo from Bayeté Ross Smith's Our Kind of People: Campaign.

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Show Notes:

1:15 Genesis of Art of Justice program

6:00 African American experience in America

9:00 Florida A&M University’s business school 

12:25 Shift from corporate business to photography 

14:20 Our Kind of People project

16:40 Columbia’s Artist-in-Residency program

30:00 How  his audience has changed

34:30 U.S. government entities

36:40 State property exhibition related to state prisons

40:40 Continuing Legal Education 

42:00 Red Summers series

49:20 Historians who have worked with him

53:40 Red Summer series as a corrective narrative that connects to current times and aids in producing future outcomes

55:25 Upcoming projects

56:20 Legacy of his work as a resource 

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Music by Toulme.

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