"Black women, you know how you have had to show and prove. Your authenticity has been challenged if you don't hit that Jennifer Holliday or Jennifer Hudson note just right. That Aretha note. If you can't sing? People gon wonder who is you really." And that is the moment where Eisa Davis, in her multimedia collage attacking the constraints of essentialism, invites the Black women in her audience to go ahead and sing …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:39PM on September 18, 2025