{"id":8920,"date":"2021-05-26T09:16:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/?p=8920"},"modified":"2021-06-08T16:40:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T20:40:38","slug":"sound-bites-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/2021\/05\/26\/sound-bites-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fall20\">\n<p class=\"caption\">Clockwise: Russell Hornsby (\u201996), CFA Dean Harvey Young, Uzo Aduba (\u201905), and Alfre Woodard (\u201974, Hon.\u201904) during the Alumni Weekend 2020 Zoom panel discussion, \u201cBlack in the Entertainment Industry: Reflections on Courage, Challenge &amp; Creativity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"background: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(87,65,135,1) 0%, rgba(236,0,130,1) 100%); -webkit-background-clip: text; -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;\"><strong>\u201cThe stories I choose are often the stories of the missing. I don\u2019t mean that just from a historical point of view; I mean it as \u2018What story do I feel like I have not seen someone like myself [in]?\u2019\u201d \u2014Uzo Aduba<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Uzo Aduba<\/strong> (\u201905) joined actors <strong>Alfre Woodard<\/strong> (\u201974, Hon.\u201904) and <strong>Russell Hornsby<\/strong> (\u201996) for a Zoom panel discussion, \u201cBlack in the Entertainment Industry: Reflections on Courage, Challenge &amp; Creativity,\u201d part of Alumni Weekend 2020.<\/p>\n<p><span>During the conversation, which was moderated by Dean Harvey Young, the actors discussed their perspectives on the evolution of the entertainment industry, representation in film and television, what it means to be an inspiration for generations of aspiring artists, and their memories of life on Comm Ave. as students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watch the full conversation by clicking the image below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trusted.bu.edu\/s\/1759\/2-bu\/alumniWeekend\/interior.aspx?sid=1759&amp;gid=2&amp;pgid=9588#Video3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cfa-magazine\/files\/2021\/05\/Alumni-Weekend-2020_Aduba-Hornsby-Woodard-Young-636x370.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/files\/2021\/05\/Alumni-Weekend-2020_Aduba-Hornsby-Woodard-Young-636x370.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/files\/2021\/05\/Alumni-Weekend-2020_Aduba-Hornsby-Woodard-Young-1024x596.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/files\/2021\/05\/Alumni-Weekend-2020_Aduba-Hornsby-Woodard-Young-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/files\/2021\/05\/Alumni-Weekend-2020_Aduba-Hornsby-Woodard-Young-1536x894.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/files\/2021\/05\/Alumni-Weekend-2020_Aduba-Hornsby-Woodard-Young.jpg 1904w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uzo Aduba (\u201905) joined actors Alfre Woodard (\u201974, Hon.\u201904) and Russell Hornsby (\u201996) for a Zoom panel discussion, \u201cBlack in the Entertainment Industry: Reflections on Courage, Challenge &#038; Creativity&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9400,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions\/9400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}