“We’ve been preparing for a long time,” Black Ensemble Theater founder Jackie Taylor says of the new building going up on Clark St. “You come from a basement with 25 people,” she notes, and find yourself meeting people you forgot you hired.
“We’re going to build a soul-food restaurant,” she says about further development in the Uptown neighborhood.
Click image above to go to video interview of Jackie Taylor. Screen shot from interview.
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