Sheryl Lee Ralph: Black History Continues…
Acting icon Sheryl Lee Ralph refects on the importance of celebrating Black history as we prepare to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Blood Sunday.
Sheryl Lee Ralph: 'A New Year and New You'
"Leave the past behind and give yourself permission to make a change and start all over again," writes actress Sheryl Lee Ralph.
Sheryl Lee Ralph on World AIDS Day, and Working with Alvin Ailey Dance Company
Sheryl Lee Ralph talks about the impact of HIV/AIDS 30 years later.
Sound-Off: Sheryl Lee Ralph on World AIDS Day
Today we acknowledge the 22nd World AIDS Day. Funny how quickly the time
flies. It seems like just yesterday I was a fresh-faced kid from Long
Island, by way of Connecticut and Jamaica, with a flair for fabulosity,
making my Broadway debut as an original company member of "Dreamgirls."
(Actually, I made my Broadway debut in one of two flops too disastrous
to mention and therefore I rewrite the facts to suit myself.) I made my
debut on December 20, 1981 -- the same year that five men with
mysterious symptoms in a San Francisco hospital sent the whole world
into shock and the dying began. Up and down Broadway, men were dropping
dead and with each sudden death came the deadly silence. I stood witness
as that disease blew out the creative flame of life on Broadway like
candles on a birthday cake...