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In its 50th year, Greenville's Warehouse Theatre will produce Trouble in Mind, a 1955 play by Alice Childress, a Black playwright who was born in Charleston.
Amanda Washington sped off from the scene last year where King Hua was shot and killed in Springfield. Defense attorney Tracie Burns said her client panicked.
When Zy Justice arrived at Kennesaw State University in Fall 2018, she knew she wanted to major in criminal justice. She didn’t expect her studies to include training in acting. Nonetheless, Justice recently sat in a black-walled room with a mixed group of theatre and criminal justice majors participating in a dramatic reading of selections from the play version “Long Way Down” by Jason Reynolds, a novel about the code of vengeance governing the streets where the main character lives.
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Amanda Washington -- the mother of Saddiq Washington, 22, the alleged gunman in last month's deadly Springfield Township road rage shooting -- was charged with hindering prosecution on Friday. Her son is charged with first degree murder in the death of King Hua, 54, who was shot while driving with his wife in the car on Wednesday, June 29. Investigators say Hua was killed because the shooter believed he was driving too slow.