Accepting the way I look, walk, and talk is the ultimate self-care — Code-switching is designed to help people of color attempt to assimilate in professional spaces, but I have been doing it since preschool. I learned early. Now, as of January 1, 2020, I decided to stop. Why? I blame the family dog. When I was five years old, I was one…

One man’s story on how practicing theater during his prison sentence changed his life. Albert Fermin was born and raised in the northern section of Manhattan, in Washington Heights. He was 31 years old when he saw his first play. But the production wasn’t a Broadway or off-Broadway production, or…