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By Ryan Shepard
May 12, 2021
Over the years, dozens of leaders, influencers and trailblazers have graced the campuses of the Atlanta University Center. From
Rosalind Brewer, few have academic centers have changed the world quite like Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College and Spelman College have. In a move to celebrate two of its greatest graduates, Spelman College has named its newly renovated performing arts center after
Latanya Richardson Jackson and
Samuel L. Jackson.
The Spelhouse couple is one of the most accomplished duos in Hollywood. After graduating from Spelman College, Latanya Richardson Jackson has gone on to appear in films and shows like Malcolm X, Show Me A Hero and Luke Cage. She s also appeared in Broadway productions of
Georgia Recorder
Sen. Jon Ossoff speaks with Atlanta HBCU students after delivering remarks at Clark Atlanta University May 7. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder
Atlanta’s historically Black colleges and universities are set to receive just under $32 million combined in grants from the American Rescue Plan, part of the $3 billion set aside for HBCUs in the $2 trillion relief package signed by President Joe Biden in March.
“HBCUs are gems in our nation’s system of higher education,” U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff told a group of Clark Atlanta University staff and students during a campus visit Friday. “HBCUs provide a vital service not just to the Black community here in Georgia and across the country, but to the entire nation and to the entire world. Please count on me as a friend and an ally and a staunch advocate for Georgia’s HBCUs and HBCUs nationwide.”
May 10, 2021 at 11:45 AM Eastern
ATLANTA – In honor of their lifetime of achievements, Spelman College will name a renovated theater, lobby, dressing rooms and supporting areas the LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Samuel L. Jackson Performing Arts Center. Located in the John D. Rockefeller Fine Arts Building, the updated arts center is being made possible by a lead gift from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation along with generous donations from Richardson Jackson and Jackson, Bank of America and David Rockefeller, Jr.
At the height of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, actress-producer-director LaTanya Richardson Jackson, C 71, was honing her significant talents on the stage of the Baldwin Burroughs Theatre in Spelman College s John D. Rockefeller Fine Arts Building. She performed, alongside then Morehouse College student, Samuel Jackson, as a member of the Morehouse Spelman Players in productions like “The Sale” by Pearl Cleage, C’71. Their auspicious