Broadway talent backs TheWalkoutProject, drawing attention to Black-owned businesses
actor and writer Sidney DuPont has launched ‘The Walkout Project,’ a social justice initiative that is aimed at supporting Black-owned businesses The movement is kicking off with the July 4th release of a new song and music video titled “Walkout.” DuPont and his collaborators are unveiling their new work at a time when protests against police brutality and racism are taking place across the country.
“There’s a lot at stake, and now is the right time to really look at ourselves in the mirror and say ‘We are better than this,'” DuPont said in an interview with. “As artists, we don’t need to rely on the same tired tropes where a Black woman comes out for one scene and belts out something sassy or a Black guy comes out and sings a painful song about history and is introduced with no back story — where they exist solely to support the leading white character.
DuPont has assembled a starry team to help him with “Walkout.” “Hamilton”s’ Tamar Greene and Jared Dixon lend rap vocals, with another past “Hamilton” star, Amber Iman, also joining the videoJesse Tyler Ferguson, Jesse Williams' 'Take Me Out' Broadway Opening Rescheduled for 2021 In addition, this project’s cast includes Alex Newell , Ari Groover , Ben Fankhauser , Christina Sajous , Crystal Kellogg , Gabrielle Elisabeth , Gabrielle McClinton , Hailee Wright , Jasmin Richardson , Kayla Davion , Kennedy Caughell , Marla Louissaint , Michael Stiggers , Nicholas Rodriguez Terence Archie , Jenna Marie Graves , Yael Reich , Amanda Castro , Ashley de la Rosa , Nasia Thomas , Aashley Morgan , Malcolm Armwood , Housso Semon , Garrett Coleman , Courtney Cochran , Vanessa Carlton...
DuPont says he wrote “Walkout” before the protests over the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and others sparked a nationwide conversation about race. He penned it for a musical he was writing about the 1990s, but realized that the song worked as a comment on the events taking place today.Veatrix, a Black-owned production company, produced the song and music video.
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