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Apr 30, 20211 min read

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, 20211 min read

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, 20211 min read

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, 20211 min read

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, 20211 min read

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, 20211 min read

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, 20201 min read

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, 20201 min read

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, 20201 min read

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, 20201 min read

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, 20191 min read

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, 20191 min read

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, 20191 min read

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, 20191 min read

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, 20191 min read

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...

Nov 15, 20191 min read

Marchánt Davis —"Working From a Place of Abundance" (Episode 67)

"As a young actor what I'm finding is that when that happens, I clock it for myself and I go, 'Oh, I dont ever want to be in this...

Oct 25, 20191 min read

Derrick Davis— "Telling Our Future" (Episode 64)

“I love telling our history and our story it’s important and it’s necessary but for there to be forward movement, we have to start...

Oct 18, 20191 min read

Brittney Johnson—"Celebrating Season 4 The Glinda Way" (Episode 63)

"I'm so honored to be the first but I'm also very uninterested in being the last. I certainly don't try to down play it and I want it to...

Oct 17, 20191 min read

Jelani Alladin—"Building Our Sandcastles of Art" (Episode 61)

“I myself fall prey to “blacking it up.” Whatever that means, and why do I have to do that to feel that I am authentic and valid. Maybe I...

Oct 17, 20191 min read

Celebrating Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations (Episode 60)

Get ready, 'cause here they come! With just a week away from the 2019 Tony Awards, we got to celebrate the 12-time Tony-nominated Ain't...

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