"Claiming Artistic Freedom" - 5 Artist-Creators Share Their Definitions (Episode 102)
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...
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- Jun 11, 2021
- 1 min
Britton Smith - "Making Room for Presence, Vulnerability, and Liberation" (Episode 101)
"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....
- May 28, 2021
- 1 min
Gerald Caesar - "Securing Your Bag While Doing What You Love" (Episode 99)
"When I see people post like their nostril on Instagram and it gets 10,000 likes, I’m like, ‘Oh, why would I do this whole photoshoot...
- May 21, 2021
- 1 min
Tonya Pinkins - "Building My Own Castle" (Episode 98)
"I sometimes wonder with young people today that there's a fragility born of carrying around violence machines every day of your life...
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Jawan M. Jackson - "Choosing Joy Daily" (Episode 97)
"We are conditioned to compete one another; if I’m being specific, going out for a Broadway show and there’s only one Black role in the...
- Apr 30, 2021
- 1 min
Zurin Villanueva - "Rollin’ With My Homies" (Episode 95)
"I marched. I realized that marching isn’t so much for the cause—you think you’re going out there for the cause—it’s more for the person...
- Apr 23, 2021
- 1 min
Adrienne Walker - "Leaning Into What Works" (Episode 94)
"For me, I needed to feel comfortable in my own skin for so many reasons—I was such a shy kid, I felt lost, in the shadows, in the...
- Apr 16, 2021
- 1 min
Ty Jones - "Connecting in Glorious, Humanistic Ways" (Episode 93)
"I think there are multiple ways to have conversations. Al Sharpton can say something of substance, but it ain’t gonna get heard the same...
- Mar 26, 2021
- 1 min
Marty Austin Lamar - "Pivoting With Purpose" (Episode 90)
"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...
- Feb 26, 2021
- 1 min
Kyle Taylor Parker - "Investigating the Possibilities" (Episode 86)
"My first album...I mixed "I Feel Pretty" with "Say It Loud—I'm Black and I'm Proud"...I never thought it would create such a divide in...
- Feb 5, 2021
- 1 min
Nick Daly - "Commencing Season 5 With a Look to the Future" (Episode 83)
“I feel like a lot of Gen Z-ers have the idea that we are just headed towards doom and that we were put in a situation that we had...
- Feb 28, 2020
- 1 min
Candice Marie Woods - "(I'm) Coming Out" (Episode 82)
"Black people are queer as well. Black people we have been seen as the strange and odd and not normal thing since we were shipped out...
- Jan 24, 2020
- 1 min
Kevin Curtis - "Overcoming Snitching Moms and Other Obstacles" (Episode 77)
"It was a shock and an eye-opener and great to be a young person and to be out and proud amongst my peers [at Baltimore School of...
- Jan 17, 2020
- 1 min
Eboni Booth — "Feeling Good and Feeling Seen" (Episode 76)
“For me, it’s age and experience. If I had gone to [Juilliard when I was younger], I think it would have been harder. I think I would...
- Jan 10, 2020
- 1 min
Eric Lockley — "Enriching The Community With Joy" (Episode 75)
"I think it has become clearer and clearer that we must lean into our individuality and be purposeful about celebrating [the title black...
- Dec 27, 2019
- 1 min
Zeniba Now — "Retiring from the BS" (Episode 73)
“To be trained in a certain style and then be professionally asked to do a whole completely different style [because of my race]—it’s not...
- Dec 20, 2019
- 1 min
James Roberts IV — "Trusting the Process" (Episode 72)
"So often I was getting sent in for “The Drug Dealer,” "The Drug Addict," "The Drug Addict Who’s on Death Row," and I don’t read that. I...
- Dec 6, 2019
- 1 min
Khleo Thomas — "Diggin' It (Uh Uh Uh)" (Episode 70)
"[Having my identity evolve] has been the hardest thing to deal with the business and industry because I've always been multifaceted,...
- Nov 29, 2019
- 1 min
Jasmine Cephas Jones — "Saying Yes to This (Transformation)"(Episode 69)
"I grew up knowing how hard it is to be an artist and have a kid; to survive on following your dreams and have multiple jobs and still...
- Nov 22, 2019
- 1 min
Michael Benjamin Washington — "Igniting (New) Fires in the Mirror" (Episode 68)
“When I was bringing in heritage [to my all-white high-school], like plays like One Monkey [Don't Stop No Show], The Fredrick Douglass...
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