Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Relive our America Now! festival through the lens of DJ Ayes Cold as she explores what hip-hip means to her.

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America Now! is a three-museum collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of American History, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum and is made possible by the generous support of the Robert and Arlene Kogod Family Foundation. The Washington Post is the media sponsor of America Now! This year’s America Now! is part of the Smithsonian-wide initiatives Solstice Saturday and the Year of Music 2019.