Through their art, our 2025 honorees Cynthia Erivo, Marla Gibbs, Teyana Taylor and Raamla Mohamed ensure that Black women feel represented

Cynthia Erivo will star as Jesus in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Jesus Christ Superstar," slated to run in August at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

This isn’t the first time that Erivo has participated in a gender-bent adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical; she sang the role of Mary Magdalene on the all-female She Is Risen concept albums,