How can brilliant artistic couples have it all? Trumpeter and Artistic Director for Columbus Jazz Orchestra, Byron Stripling and Dancer, Choreographer, and Writer Alexis Wilson tells us how their creative flexibility allows for them to balance marriage, family and careers on a national and international scale.

"Not So Black And White" is a memoir by Alexis Wilson about mixed marriage, abandonment, a mother's secret, same sex parents, Broadway, the Ballet, AIDS and the author's valiant journey towards a strong and clear passage.