On this episode of dance curator Charmaine Warren’s Black Dance Stories series, Jamal unpacks the NAKED truth about the commoditization and sexualization of his black male body during his decades-long career. Gesel Mason takes us on a black dance exploration and the two meet in the middle and the end for #thong #gstring recap and festivity, and an address to the question, “Should Jamal write this book?”

On the heels of the termination of former Ailey 2 artistic director Troy Powell after allegations of sexual harassment, Un-Silencing the Voices of Black Men and Boys in the Arts deals with the telling of these stories. Special guests Addison Ector and Dr. Latoya Conner.

Host Brian Brooks, co-hosts Jamal Story and Darell Hunt, and special guest Dionne Figgins discuss their personal histories with activism throughout their careers.

Hosts Brian Brooks and co-hosts Jamal Story and Darell Hunt return, this time to discuss statues, flags and other symbols as representations of oppression. Also explored: the Facebook boycott and implications of Mark Zuckerberg's response.

This episode deals with the intersection of the LGBTQIA+ community and Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter movements. Beyond the Thread is a series that expands controversial, current conversations beyond the limitations of social media. Host Brian Brooks (@Harlan4B IG) and co-hosts Jamal Story and Darell Hunt (@noontnoont).

In celebration of Juneteenth and Black Music Month, I had the great privilege of an invitation to curate a roundtable discussion for the International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) discussing the relationship of Black Dance and Black Music to each other and their connection to Resistance, Revolution, Resilience and Remembrance. Mad props to Tiffany Pittman for conjuring this concept. For more on IABD and the panelists, which include Moncel Durden, Tonya Marie Amos, Melanie George, Pat Taylor and the indomitable Cleo Parker Robinson, please click HERE. And don’t stop there: IABD needs all the help we can get, so hop around that website and then share, share, share.

Juneteenth was miraculous also because of this moment at City Hal, when I was able to stand in for Tiffany Rea-Fisher, one of the event organizers and fellow IABD Next Generation Leadership Committee members. Special thanks to Brandon Kazen-Maddox (@bkazenmaddox IG), the ASL interpreter on my left, whose brilliant work is particularly appopriate because of how the movement aspects of his job augmented the artist/dancer messages Tiffany and I represented. Thank you Brandon!

Hosted by Brian Brooks with co-hosts Darell Hunt and Jamal Story, Beyond the Thread is a series that expands controversial, current conversations beyond the limitations of social media. This pilot effort unpacks police brutality/murder of black people, the history of anti-blackness, what COVID-19 reveals about us and how what white allies can tangibly do.