121 stories by "Kelundra Smith"
Thanks to Tyler Perry's studio and a flurry of big-budget movie shoots, theater performers have an easier time supporting themselves.
What if instead of working 40 hours per week, missing time with family and losing sleep, Mondays were optional? What if marriage didn't come with the expectation of having children? What if …
Violeta (Irma Cristancho) hasn't seen her daughter Cotillon (Joselin Reyes) and granddaughter Prudencia (Limara Meneses Jiménez) in years, and she is determined to make amends with her fami…
Eighteen months ago, Pop-Up Magazine invited Peabody Award-winning radio producer Tina Antolini to step out of the studio and go on tour telling stories in front a live audience. Pop-Up Maga…
Topher Payne has developed a reputation for creating insightful women characters, and a strong all-female ensemble cast illuminates his hilarious script in the world premiere of Morningside,…
In the 2012 Oscar-nominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild, screenwriter Lucy Alibar tells the story of a father and daughter who find their marginal existence living on the Louisiana bayo…
An Atlanta theater still believes in "Holler if Ya Hear Me," which makes use of the rapper's songbook but stumbled on Broadway in 2014.
"Don't be the old black in the new white world." These words, uttered by Detective Audrey O'Connor, hang in the air in Stephen Aldy Guirgis' 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Between Riversid…
A lot of people want Herman Camm dead, and no one can really blame them. This devil in a three-piece suit slides into Mae Lou's bedroom just after her beloved husband dies. But, he also has …
If offered the opportunity to stab your master in the back, would you? Odysseus, the protagonist of Homer's Greek epic The Odyssey, certainly would have. When a slave named Hero, however, is…
When 24-year-old Anna Claire Walker moved to Atlanta after graduating with a bachelor's degree in musical theatre from Auburn University, she was determined to get involved with the city's t…
Viola Liuzzo left her husband and five children in Detroit to assist civil rights workers in Selma, Alabama, and never came back home. Liuzzo was killed on the day that would become known as…
The song "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is perhaps the quintessential representation of America's enchantment with World War II. It evokes in the imagination parades of heroes going off to defeat…
The Black Experience obstacle course starts at the Middle Passage and goes through the Civil Rights Movement, but, uh oh, there's a Flavor Flav moment and the entire race is set back. Better…
The teacher's lounge is traditionally a place that operates under the Vegas rule, but in Ike Holter's play Exit Strategy, at True Colors Theatre through March 19, he takes the audience into …
During the summer of 1961, a few months after the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public transportation violated the Constitution, hundreds of young men and women, both Black and whi…
On January 21, people watched awe struck by women marching all across the world. On every continent, they marched for reproductive rights, to end genital mutilation, stand against domestic a…
"Make a career of humanity, commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and finer world to live in." …
When Thurgood Marshall started studying at Howard University Law School, there were 160,000 white lawyers in the United States and less than 1,000 African American ones.
There have been countless times when someone has told the joke about a rabbi, a priest and another random character walking into a bar. But, what about the one where an actress, a neuroscien…
In a time where it seems everyone has a newsfeed, it is hard to imagine a period where living "off the fat of the land" was the American Dream. Less than a century ago, during the Great Depr…
Whatever happened to glamour? Glamour is different from The Fabulous Life Of television show or the product placement opportunity that red carpets have become, but
Troy Anthony Davis had three close calls with death before he was executed via lethal injection on September 21, 2011 at 11:08 p.m. The first
Janine Nabers was studying to be an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and had an intense craving to play iconic roles in
"Sometimes revolution needs a woman's touch."Â Playwright Lauren Gunderson, a Decatur native, is emerging as one of the most noted feminist playwrights in the country.
