00:00I don't know where any of us would be without all those performances on that stage.
00:04The Apollo, it's the beginning of all of it.
00:08Music and art provided an avenue out of the legacy of slavery.
00:13In spite of the circumstances, we found the joy, the humor, the freedom of truth.
00:20The music speaks to something so human that even the people who hold you underneath their boot can't help but
00:28sing along.
00:30This music just connected.
00:32When we first came to New York, the Apollo was the first place we wanted to go.
00:37I've come a long way to be able to do this.
00:41It means a lot to me.
00:44For 82 years, people have been coming to the Apollo Theater to boo the amateur.
00:52They kept it real.
00:56First time the Miracles and I ever played at the Apollo, we're just kids, man.
00:59I'm only 17.
01:00I was a nervous wreck.
01:02Here comes Ray Charles.
01:04Will the Apollo continue to be a vibrant space of black expression?
01:09Or will it be a shrine to the past?
01:14The Apollo can be the place that creates new works born out of an African-American cultural experience.
01:21So we are developing Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
01:26How many hills and mountains?
01:29A task every day in struggle.
01:32The Apollo has always represented truth.
01:35You had to bring all of you, all of your spirit, all of your soul, all of your God-given
01:40talent.
01:41We're the builders of a nation.
01:44We have made something down here.
01:46They made us into a race, but we made ourselves into a people.
01:51We're the building.
01:59We are the
02:09Grazie a tutti.
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