With "Nana's Porch," writer AJ Valentine wants viewers "to allow themselves to feel." The 31-minute film is about two cousins forming a tight bond during summers spent at their grandmother's house.
Acclaimed soprano Maria Clark and award-winning pianist/composer Maria Thompson Corley have released a new album of spirituals and hymns called Soul Sanctuary.
From the column: "'Just knowing that I'm showing other people, other potential Black artists that there is space for them, (that) we may have to shove some things out of the way for that space to be made and demand our space and compensation that is equitable and fair, but there is space for us'."
OPERA America has announced the third cycle of IDEA Opera Grants (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access), an initiative that supports teams of composers and librettists who identify as African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and/or Native American in the development of new operatic works and the advancement of their careers in the opera industry.