Welcome back Slurz.

I am Robert Townsend.

And I am Dr. Serena Fairfax, and this is the read.

Thank you for joining us.

Thank you for joining us indeed.

Hope you're well.

And hope you're, you know, it's going to be May.

So keep that eye on the prize.

Let's start the usual festivities with Black Excellence this week.

We're going to give honor over to a collective known as Orkistra noir.

It's an all-black orchestra that was created in 2016,

led by one Jason Ikeem Rogers, was from North Philly,

has been in Atlanta for about 14 years,

which is where this group was originated. This is to fill in a huge gap,

lacking blackness within classical music

and to bring black folk who are not interested in classical music

or think that they're not interested in classical music or think

that they're not interested in classical music. Up to the front, they have been all over the

place from the inaugural Juneteenth Freedom Vibs Festival. Jimmy Fallon's show, they were the first

orchestra to first U.S. orchestra to present at Red Bull Symphonic.

And, yeah, they're selling out shows all across the country right now.

And I think part of the appeal for you Negroes who wouldn't go to this sort of function is that they're working in early 2000s hip-hop and R&B songs, you know, switching the game up so that your girls can go out there and, you know, I guess drop down and get your eagle on or whatever, but with great music and instrumentation and talented people.

...