herself during a new year's eve for beauty it's that last she read danielle talks about how she's bringing back her one woman show to the theater and how she got involved with police brutality fashion that they sure is out today is out sick but we hope he gets better soon here and but so we have a johnny jamieson who is back to guest  says you make everything there's a lot we're expecting here so what so what do you all do for the holidays i spent the holidays with my family for christmas you know opening up good gifts and just enjoying you know in the space of having a stick to the original here the food may be i wish i'd been trying to do this every year now how many of you are familiar with the word know about the broken tabernacle church or have gone to the program tabernacle church by a show of hands here it's hard to see them up i can't see the majority of you here every new year's day do this some new year's eve service here at the book and tabernacle i've said i've always wanted to go i never get a chance to go because when you do the countdown the midnight confetti comes up and i want to get it now that i know you love confetti and not going to get too deep into it because i don't know what could happen on my birthday exactly yours is coming sometime right around the corner yes was exulting next on well i'm aquarius you know there's been so much going on while we were on our holiday break for instance tiffany had received criticism from her comedy show in miami for new years some say that she was not funny at what was going on well i feel like a lot of big comedians murphy they've been booed off stage before so this is nothing something that's not this is not something that is like a song on ordinary people have bad nights however people get bored and things like that but like still like usually like the whole career she's kept a professional with us while you know and she's like moved up to where she's at now so i'm just surprised at that has happened she's a cat i guess makes katt williams right  because you can't tell jokes back to back you can't do this kind of i don't know why he is coming for in public like that but because he's probably a low key hater she's moving up and he still he still is where he like i notice that like an industry like him people and you know you like mov even though i'm not i mean because you know not everyone can be funny at times and it happens this is like we do the best we can but for standup comedians it's like you have to like be prepared ahead  together and it's a lesson learned you know yeah well one other thing i notice is that this year for new year's rockin the mariah carey wasn't at the new year's rockin eve twenty nineteen because she had it down south to be with her family welcom anything else you want to add on to what you saw on what was trending over new years or i'm at this point were i've been watching these new year's performances for the last twenty two years and it's the are you feeling down you are great weight that came out wrong but is really around how badly you want to take a risk yeah are you going to take a chance to either be embarrassed or get excited you know before we go any further i just remember one thing that i forgot to show you because we can't start off the new year without me doing this here ok look fabulous you look fabulous looks amazing really understand why they made it's not just for dating anymore because the washington post says more individuals are playing into their workplace instead of giving two weeks notice before resigning they just stop going to work hallway that's so rude it's like so this is imagine if you go to work every morning for a year and your boss is like on you're just yelling at you every day for no reason and then you're like i don't still i'm on just different i still wouldn't do it and that's like so this is my i'm sorry i'll just be like i was like i don't know i would just like to know what if every morning i was rude to you i made a major life which is what you do for a living is your life with me i don't want to gets me i'll unprofessional as we mentioned here but look if you if you're going out and not letting anyone know ahead of time about the go stay or write or say that you're going to cough or because of this you should let them know ahead of time bat kevin you're thinking about retirement i'd love to but i'm pretty busy with all this yeah there's a place where the power of video takes on new meaning a place where your voice matters and your ideas count a place where you call the shots and it's right here in vibrant east harlem manhattan neighborhood networks of youth media center a place where high school and college students can learn about media creation after school or on weekends in our free to typical program then put those video production and editing skills to use creating original content for our youth channel social media platforms and other internship opportunities we're a full service studio right here in east harlem with special programs and services that empower you to use media and video production to raise awareness on important social issues here we celebrate content created by you or you hear your opinions and creativity counts and your voice will be heard to learn more go to w w w dot him in dot org or forward slash  she's been known for writing and performing her opening monologue to her one woman show the diary of an afro goddess this year at twenty nineteen in february she's returning to her do her thing in her one woman show with a little this is the first time i've ever done a festival i mean the show premiered in two thousand and sixteen yes and you know i did it at the wild cafe theater that i went on to do it at the new rican poets cafe and i also did it at the center and then i did it in atlanta but this is the first time i've ever gotten into a festival fun going to actually be competing against other plays in the have like a best actress category a best a bad play category so with this competition because of the solo so i could only do it forty five minutes that was like difficult for me because the original version is like an hour and twenty minutes this is like i had to make like some cut but to still get like the story across but i think i did a pretty good job so it's a little it's a but you know i think that's a good story and you know you have the pinpoints and i think i can still get the message that i want to get across yeah i can see why you did a good job because you received an award nomination for the outstanding solo performance  and sixteen and you were honored by the corps for p o w which is a powerful organization of women tell us what it was like when you heard about this or how did you feel when happened when i got the adult global war nomination and i was so happy i think i cried because ever since i moved to new york i moved to new york in like two thousand and ten i was like eighteen like i came there like as a teenager from atlanta and i started to hear about this the war called the adult go and all the actors that i knew that i like that i saw off off broadway shows doing black theater keep it like theater alive were all nominated for adult goals in like winning adult goals so that was like always one of my big goals to like you know get nominated for an adult it's i was really happy about that and then when i was nominated by p o w like that was just amazing too because there's just like a lot of strong powerful women who are like making moves so it was really nice to be honored and that too because you know was what do you love the most about what acting is my main thing i mean that's just like little special skills to like help me stand out with a certain character is but but acting is what i've been doing since i was a child i went to performing arts high school so i also was a vocal to create your own work is very important especially this danny especially as an artist the caller i think we all need to be on creating our own stories our own narratives because this is a time where diverse he is very wanted and needed right now so i think we definitely need to take advantage of that so i think we all should be writing our own stuff and we don't know how to write you need to be mean other people who know how to write and help and just develop stories told that was very important to me because although i had an agent and a manager i didn't really start booking lange t v or film stuff and till i did my solo show ironically you know and i think it's just it's a different confidence that you have when you walk into the room you create your own words in your own work you're not so worried about oh i need this job oh i need the gig because it's like you already got your own thing going on think you have to create but to stay mindful of the industry so yeah my it's a good agent might to get a manager fights a go and auditions but always be creating your own thing so when you don't have auditions to go to you're still feeling like an artist  i think that's what i talk about in the diary of an afro goddess and yes i have an afro when i talk about the afro throughout the show but i talk about the versatility of us as a people you know our hair isn't just like hair for us it's the part of our culture you know i mean we came here with different hair we ha to try to make our hair look like did what was acceptable and then we got support we were comfortable as i said and to wear our hair we want so it's like a huge point in african american history so i you know the hair and and blackness and all that is really important to me because i didn't you know complete my journey at a conservatory i was only there my first year here and then it was an inside started working with my own personal acting coach and phillips once i started working with her is when i really started to find myself as an actor so i feel like so the actors out there i think actors they work out you know like it's a skill it's like getting being a boxer it's like being a football person and you know whatever you have to work it out so i think you need to find what works for you find a teacher you feel comfortable with and just find  shows to be different i've seen many solo shows all you know like since i've been in new york even before i was in new york you know i saw solo shows so it can be fellow shows and there's one person literally playing like twenty characters and seeing stuff like that or that you have shows like mine where just play my character i don't stories about other characters and kind of in body different characters as i tell the story but for the most part i remain one consistent character and you just see different levels and i just tell the story through that of different styles but it's definitely it's different you know because you have to really use your imagination with the solo show is it more difficult for you to do a solo show than all the roles or i think this i was it was difficult for me because i wrote it so this is like my first time writing something that long so i wanted to make sure every message and everything that i did got across the way i wanted to get across so i think i put a lot of pressure and i felt to make sure everything was executed properly because it's like i was the playwright and actor is the it's like  anything like that would happen i mean i am you know i'm used to you know i'm still in the what enter media and fate of my career so a lot of times you know i do a low budget projects and if i you know i got called in my friend knew somebody i kind of literally got this part like two days before it happened because somebody else dropped that they're like oh do you want to do it i'm like ok so it's like any project i already know first hand almost any projects you know we cut corners like we don't necessarily get licenses for every single place and everything we're kind of like sneaking over here  there and you know trying our best to just to just fill wherever we can film so if this were a film in an abandoned building and we were using fake guns and i'm thinking to myself i was thinking oh maybe because we were filming an abandoned building like the police may come and tell us we can't film anymore but i never thought they would think we had real good that was crazy like we were literally finishing that day and putting up the fake guns and then a whole swat team it was like they were like drop everything you know and i didn't have anything gun in my hand at the time but there were other people that that were in the set that had them somewhere black so i was like oh my god you know what i don't agree with the whole thing is the police knew by the second they saw us have like you know a guess what happened was the train passing where we were filming and the train you know saw people have guns you know i mean come on i'm pretty sure they didn't care about our complection at all you know this is not people of god they're like ok this must be a gang or something and yeah and they tipped off the police and it just became like i think the saddest part of my director who was like around the corner and kind of like going to the car like i think they grabbed it from the bushes the like tackled him or something and they got there he was like trying to escape that project was supposed to specific we go into a festival that has already passed but you know what i'm going to still work with him again so i mean i'm definitely not going to work with him in a weapon is a good guys know you know it happens but yeah that was dramatic yes well manhattan neighborhood network is a community media center that helps new yorkers learn how to make media with impact where a full service studio with production space screening rooms top of the line editing facilities at any credible instructors co take the first steps towards creating something great your ideas your voice your talent broadcast for your city to learn more go to w w w m n n dot org slash firehouse today all about to have the opportunity now so please welcome fashion model jessica got into the career of modeling yes modeling is not about being beautiful it's not about being pretty it's not about just walking it's not and about being a clothes hanger you know you're just showing your clothes it is about empowering other women to be themselves when i walk it is about this is me this is home showcasing myself to the world and i want you to do the same honest what would you say is your type of fashion in your stand i wear whatever i feel like honestly style is just entertainment industry in general anything any career aspect and you have to be yourself and do not compare yourself to other people that is how you will fail you do not have to compare yourself to anybody you see you are you she is she he is he you know so what would you say what was exciting like the most exciting fashion show anything you would like to share about the show for the show i feel like there's always no matter you know as a model matter how many shows you do you always feel this beautiful adrenaline rush don't like me who may be intimidated or threatened and when i go out i say this is me take it or leave it and that is what i love about it i love  crystal is standing it's your time you're on so you're going to you're going to prepare yourself mentally you want to stay focused you want to walk yet you want to turn ok you make eye contact with only the camera when i was in high school i was physically at school by my listeners will i hope problems at home and that's hard when we feel like you're doing to a mom that's when i met him our niece my mom as  find free adult education classes near you and finish your diploma dot org  single person who came in the audience thank you very much i'm on instagram at the diary of an afro got as you can follow me on twitter at afro got a play on twitter 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