Taye Diggs

Personal context

Summary

Taye Diggs is an actor and singer known for stage roles in Rent and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and for film and television work including The Best Man, Private Practice, and All American. Race, mixed identity, and belonging recur in his children’s books Chocolate Me!, Mixed Me!, and Why?, and he has discussed talking with his son about racism, police brutality, and Black Lives Matter. He has said that his son should be free to identify with both his Black and white heritage. No public record of partisan campaigning or DEI organization roles is established.