Starring hiphop legend Karl “Dice Raw” Jenkins and directed by Phill Brown, Henry Box Brown: A Hip Hop Musical uses theater as a tool for education and re-education. Henry Box Brown was a slave who read and wrote poetry, practiced magic, sang in a church choir and was a hypnotist. He performed all around the world once freed, and publicly expressed his political views.
Henry Box Brown: The Musical is playing at the Community College of Philadelphia from February, 1st thru February 17th, 2018.
Dice and Jamie stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about the musical and performed live.