“I didn't come to the arts for accolades. I'm always talking about the importance of our ‘why.’ I've been working at my ‘why’ since I was...

After a long hiatus, we are BACK for a special holiday episode! We take you inside the creation of Sugar Hill: The Ellington/Strayhorn...

For the season five finale of call and response, we celebrate FREEDOM. In a time where fear and scarcity feel wide-spread, how can we...

"There has to be permission for Black men to be vulnerable. Vulnerability wasn't taught to me or to my brother or to my community....

"I work with children who are of a different generation. They are so much more evolved than we are—than their parents are. They are so...

"In our efforts to give our kids the best, sometimes we completely remove them from their communities, and so what I began to see at...

"I didn’t know a lot of Black conductors who existed. That’s because the education of who they were wasn’t there. Classical education is...

“I am so a black artist, but I am an artist first. When you put “black” you are telling the audience they may only relate to a certain...

“There is no musical I can get my brother to come to if I’m not in it and that bothers me. There is nothing, nothing, not a single show...

“Music is healing...Artists have always been activists. Art is about speaking out. Art is about shining light on social justices, social...

“I think diversity in musical theatre means acknowledging there is an entire jewel with endless facets of points of views that need to be...