Stage debut, "Of Mice and Men" in Baltimore, MD

Appeared as regular on PBS series "Our Street"

Broadway debut, "We Interrupt This Program"

Feature film debut, "The House of God"

Was a regular on the NBC daytime drama "Another World"

Breakthrough film role, Coalhouse Walker, Jr in Milos Foreman's "Ragtime"

Starred in feature film "A Soldier's Story"

Primetime series debut as regular, "Wildside" (ABC)

Appeared as regular in TV series "In the Heat of the Night"

Final feature role, "Drunks" (film had festival screens and was aired on Showtime before its theatrical release)

Final TV appearances, guest performance on "Remember WENN" (AMC) and on PBS Kwanzaa special "Harambee!"