By: N. James Dotson Jr./ Digital Editor Big Apple Leadership Academy for the Arts, or BALAA, offers performing art for families below the poverty line in the Bed-Stuy area of New York. Finding its permanent place in the area the organization started in rented spaces, schools, parks, and online offering performing arts lessons showcasing the specific stylings that are exclusively HBCU. BALAA started by holding workshops and classes in different spaces before eventually working with McKinney Secondary School for the Arts which gave their Empire Marching Band Elite, a band program set up in the style of HBCUs, a free […]
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