Baby Boy’s Procession looks at the struggle to negotiate one’s humanity with power. The three main influences are Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow, the song “Baby Boy” from the latest Childish Gambino album and a video of a Black mother being arrested after her child was assault by a White man. The little boy on the far left is a self-portrait of me as a kid riding on a toy car with a plastic gun in a hostler with a sheriff’s star on the front. The figure reflects that fact that a disproportionate number of Black men are profiled and forced to have their Fourth Amendment rights violated. But this figure is distant from the other figures in this procession. He is alone and vulnerable. The other figures are trying to protect him but are still negotiating their humanity within systems of oppression.