Here he is in 2009, performing Shakespeare at the (Obama) "White House Evening of Poetry, Music and the Spoken Word": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJybA1emr_

Here he is in 2009, performing Shakespeare at the (Obama) "White House Evening of Poetry, Music and the Spoken Word": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJybA1emr_g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJybA1emr_g (Othello's speech defending himself: [1]) (Incidentally, it was on the same occasion that Lin-Manuel Miranda first announced he was working on a hip-hop album about treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton, to some laughter, before performing a sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnE — the musical came out six years later.) [1]: https://www.litcharts.com/shakescleare/shakespeare-translations/othello/act-1-scene-3#:~:text=Most%20powerful%2C%20serious%2C%20and%20honorable,that%20I%20have%20married%20her https://www.litcharts.com/shakescleare/shakespeare-translati....