60 Minutes – U.S. Marine Band forced to cancel concert with students of color after Trump DEI order

I am incredibly proud of my former student, Rishab Jain, for his outstanding accomplishments in music. I’m especially proud of his involvement in this recent 60 Minutes story.

I highly encourage you to watch the full video—his remarks at the 2:30 mark particularly stood out to me.

If we’re a society that’s surpassing art, we’re a society that is afraid of what it might reveal about itself. If we’re suppressing music, we’re suppressing emotions, we’re suppressing expression, we’re suppressing vulnerability, we’re suppressing the very essence of what makes us human. We are devaluing our own humanity; we are degrading our own humanity.

You can watch the entire concert here.