The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, Inc., is a Dallas, Texas-based multi-discipline arts institution whose mission is to create and enhance an awareness and understanding of artistic, cultural and aesthetic differences utilizing the framework of African, African American and Caribbean Arts and Letters. Additionally, its purpose is to promote, cultivate, foster, preserve and perpetuate the African, African American and Caribbean Arts and letters in the Fine, Literary, Visual, Performing and Cinematic Arts. The Black Academy Choir is our in-house community choir of singers who have backed the legendary artists who have appeared at TBAAL such as Ruben Studdard, Phylicia Rashad, Jennifer Holliday, Peabo Bryson, Ruby Dee, Mavis Staples, Cicely Tyson, Louis Gossett Jr., Eartha Kitt, and Roberta Flack, among others.