King Crush Thursday - The Interviews

EP 162 TOMMIEE-WAHEED EVANS

Guggenheim Fellow Tommie-Waheed Evans' work explores blackness, spirituality, queerness & liberation. His training began with Karen McDonald, later receiving an Ailey School fellowship, and an MFA in Choreography from Jacksonville University. A former company member of Lula Washington Dance Theater, Complexions, and PHILADANCO, he's created works for BalletX, Dallas Black, DCDC, and Ballet Memphis, among others. His awards include Resident Fellow at the Center for Ballet and the Arts, the Princess Grace Award in Choreography, and Joffrey Ballet Winning Works. He is an Assistant Professor at UArts and an Artist in Residence at PhiladDANCO. See the video interview HERE [https://youtu.be/ywq6vrjcnUc?si=b5iiwuyYe48DV05k]

EP 87 ANDRE ROBERT LEE

André Robert Lee is a Film Maker, Keynote Speaker, Consultant, Writer, Educator, and executive producer of the NPR radio broadcast, "Notes from America". He has committed his entire career to building an army of change agents. His process includes Many Things; New York City Public Schools, The Ford Foundation, Miramax Films, Urbanworld, Film Movement, Diana Ross, BET, Universal, PBS, HBO, Sundance, Picturehouse, and Dreamworks. André directed and produced The Prep School Negro and served as producer on the documentary I’m Not Racist…Am I? André created The Election Effects Project for Paramount TV. André’s film award winning film Virtually Free is the story of incarcerated youth in Richmond, Virginia is still on the festival route. The Road to Justice is a film that documents the Civil Rights Tours André has led throughout the American South. He is the Executive Producer on this film. In the Spring of 2021, André Directed Firsthand: Realizing Your Full Potential Through Stem, a short documentary for Strayer Studies in partnership with Blackhouse (Sundance). André directed and produced This is Life with Lisa Ling for CNN. André is currently in development for a documentary project with artists Steven and William Ladd, a TV show about the influence of Drag on the fashion industry and a series on mental health in the California Department of Education. André also teaches Filmmaking at the Germantown Friends School. He has worked with the school to develop a film program for Middle and Upper School. André has also served as a Professor of writing at The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.  See the video interview HERE [https://youtu.be/CpGyAltdmAE?si=zY78jb7v4Gp-gFpj]

EP 86 DR GILBERT COLEMAN

Dr Gilbert Coleman @drgilbertc walks in the office of apostle while serving as the Overseer of the Freedom Christian Bible Fellowship in Philadelphia, Pa and the presiding Bishop of the Freedom WorldWide Covenant Ministries. After pastoring Freedom for thirty years, the Lord expanded Dr Coleman's assignment to be a leader to leaders. Dr Coleman has always desired to see men fulfill their God-given role as spiritual leaders and still maintains that conviction. Transforming The Minds Of Men will always be a large part of this servants responsibilities; however, there comes a time when we all must answer the call to new seasons of ministry. The Lord's assignment for Dr Coleman, in this season, is to empower leaders and strengthen churches to engage the culture and manifest the Kingdom of God in all the earth. See the video interview HERE [https://youtu.be/A7pMyTKPYGA?si=csNM4kjhn6em3fvb]

EP 85 DR JAMES EARL DAVIS

James Earl Davis is the Bernard C. Watson Chair in Urban Education at Temple University and Professor of Higher Education in the College of Education and Human Development. He also holds affiliate faculty appointments in the Department of Africology and African American Studies and the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program. With an explicit concern for gender equity in education, his research has provided new insights into how social contexts of education inform racial and gender experiences and expressions, especially for Black boys and emerging adult men. More specifically, his work has investigated the construction of gender identity and its ties to engagement and performance at different education levels, from early learning to higher education. Davis’s current research focuses on gender-based education policy and reform; social stratification and urban neighborhood-university relations; and the intersection of schooling options and housing inequality. His work has been funded by varies agencies including the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, Spencer Foundation, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the William Penn Foundation. With research publications in numerous academic journals, books, and edited volumes, Professor Davis has sought to generate, leverage and trouble the field’s understanding of education pathways, the confluence of gender and race, and how broader contexts inform postsecondary possibilities. A former National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a Fulbright-Hays Scholar Davis’s scholarly work and professional contributions have been honored with the Warrior Award-International Colloquium on Black Males in Education, Distinguished Research Career Award-Center for Research and Mentoring of Black Male Students and Teachers, Association for the Study of Higher Education Distinguished Mentor Award, American Education Research Association’s Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award and AERA Fellow status. Throughout his career, he has been instrumental in advancing collaborative university relationships with schools, districts and community-based organizations, increasing external grant-funded for research and service initiatives; mentoring and supporting early career faculty and graduate students, and developing university place-based strategies and partnerships. Professor Davis holds a BA in Sociology from Morehouse College, a Ph.D. from Cornell University, and completed post-doctoral study in the Division of Education Policy at the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ.   See the video interview HERE [https://youtu.be/jXI7SM9t64Q?si=V_lOqIE_U33zWTv0]

EP 84 ANTHONY MOORE

Tony Moore hails from the city of brotherly love Philadelphia Pennsylvania and has dedicated his life to music from a young age. Tony’s dedication to his craft has a forwarded him the opportunities to be a songwriter, gospel artist music producer in both TV and film and so much more Tony’s goals in life is to gift back to his community, the culture and the world through the magic of music. See the video of this interview HERE [https://youtu.be/bfJjny9gGo0?si=lly2NST01thYIZLi]