Baseball is the national pastime, but it’s a game that may need to find a way to reach the Black youth demographic. “There aren’t as many African American kids playing the game that I would ...

Burke is the casting director for “School of Rock,” the musical based on the 2003 movie about musically inclined elementary school kids who ... able to actually play instruments.

In D.C., she saw greater economic disparity among Black people ... more musical instruments for her program because she doesn’t have enough for all the kids who want to play.