Wendell Pierce

Wendell Pierce and Sharon D. Clarke in "Death of a Salesman" join us.

For the first time ever on a Broadway stage, the Loman family of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" are being played by Black actors.

Watch a conversation with "12 Angry Men" director Stephen McKinley Henderson and actors Wendell Pierce, Roger Robinson and Stephen Tyrone Williams. 

The Oscars’ lack of diversity has been a problem for years. What’s it going to take to change the story? 

"The Wire" and "Treme" actor Wendell Pierce offers his view of the lack of diversity in the nominee list for the Academy Awards and more broadly, Hollywood and the entire industry.

Wendell Pierce, star of "The Wire" and "Treme," talks about his work rebuilding the Katrina-damaged Pontchartrain Park neighborhood in New Orleans.

As Bunk on "The Wire," Wendell Pierce lived and worked in Baltimore for years. He reflects on the fictionalized world of "The Wire," and the real-life problems of today.

No one throws a holiday party like Jazz At Lincoln Center! Wynton Marsalis leads an all-star lineup through a Yuletide romp.  The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is joined by vocalists René Marie and Gregory Porter for a New Orleans style holiday treatment of I'll Be Home for Christmas, Winter Wonderland and We Three Kings. Wendell Pierce hosts.

Wendell Pierce, best known for his role as Bunk in the HBO series "The Wire," is starting a chain of grocery stores in New Orleans as a means of revitalizing the city.

Fans of David Simon's "The Wire" are eagerly awaiting the premiere of his latest HBO Series, "Treme." "Treme" is another city-biopic that chronicles a group of people struggling for survival in a scarred neighborhood. But post-Katrina New Orleans is very different from the Baltimore projects fans of "The Wire" came to know intimately. Treme is a poor neighborhood in New Orleans and we get introduced to it three months after the flood waters have receded.

Actor and New Orleans native Wendell Pierce is probably best known for his role as the cigar-smoking, hard-drinking detective William "Bunk" Moreland on HBO's critically acclaimed dra...