Cassandra Wilson is a singer, songwriter, musician and now an 2022 NEA Jazz Master. In this tuneful podcast, the Grammy Award winner takes us through her career in music, her influences, her approach to singing, how she works with other musicians, her ideas about song-writing, and the centrality of the Blues and Mississippi’s rich musical heritage to her work. Wilson is as … [Read more...] about Meet 2022 NEA Jazz Master Cassandra Wilson
Photojournalist Lynsey Addario on showing the face of war
Photojournalist Lynsey Addario has been making news herself lately: she recently took what many consider to be a war defining photograph--that of a church worker, a mother and her children killed by a mortar as they tried to flee the Russian bombardment outside Kyiv. It’s a photograph that resonated around the world, showing clearly the cost civilians are paying for the war in … [Read more...] about Photojournalist Lynsey Addario on showing the face of war
Ashleigh Gordon
Violist, Co-founder and Artistic/Executive Director of Castle of our Skins Violist Ashleigh Gordon is the co-founder and artistic/executive director of Castle of our Skins—a music initiative in Boston that celebrates Black artistry in music. Violist Ashleigh Gordon and pianist Anthony R. Green were students at the New England Conservatory of Music and were frustrated by the … [Read more...] about Ashleigh Gordon
Meet the New Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts-Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson!
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, the 13th chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, is no stranger to the Arts Endowment having had a great deal of first-hand experience with the agency as she has served on the National Council on the Arts since 2013. She comes to the position of chair with years of experience in comprehensive community building that focuses on the centrality of … [Read more...] about Meet the New Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts-Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson!
Sade Lythcott of National Black Theatre and Radical Storytelling
Sade Lythcott CEO of National Black Theatre (NBT) is carrying on the legacy of her mother Dr. Barbara Ann Teer who founded NBT back in 1968. Based in Harlem and born out of the Black Arts Movement, NBT has spent the last five decades presenting stories by and about Black people with an aim is "to produce transformational theater…by telling authentic stories of the Black … [Read more...] about Sade Lythcott of National Black Theatre and Radical Storytelling