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Who Will Sing for Lena - Invited to represent the United States at the Mondial du Theatre 2021 International Theatre Festival in Monaco. This month for WCLK's The Local Take(Saturdays 8am), I've reached out to outstanding women for Women's History Month.  If you want to tell us about an outstanding woman in your life, please go to The Local Take With Kiplyn Primus Facebook page and share or call our community engagement line at 404-880-6211. We'll be talking with and about women all month, and it would be great to include your favorite woman! Dr. Janice Liddell is a former educator. I ask h...

Henrietta Spearman the first African-American woman photojournalist at the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Currently she is the Chief Operations Officer of Savvy Sentences, Inc., a small woman-owned creative writing firm. This month on The Local Take, we are highlighting women who have made history and women who are making history.  This week we speak with Henrietta Spearman, the first African American woman to work as a photojournalist at the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.   After graduating from Georgia State with a degree in broadcast journalism, Spearman took a job as a "copy carr...

Join WCLK's The Local Take with Kiplyn Primus and AARP Georgia for a Virual Town Hall about COVID-19 on Thursday, March 18 at 7 p.m. EST on WCLK's YouTube channel (Jazz919WCLK). This live event will feature a panel of experts who will be discussing the importance of COVID-19 basics (washing your hands, social distancing and wearing a mask). They will also weigh in on the COVID-19 vaccination, dealing with senior isolation, mental health and surviving this new COVID economy. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the WCLK YouTube channel and tune in on March 18.  Also, stay close to WCLK.com as we will ...

Juel Borders - Senior Class of 1954 Spelman College Yearbook  This month for The Local Take, I've reached out to outstanding women for Women's History Month.  If you want to tell us about an outstanding woman in your life, please go to The Local Take With Kiplyn Primus Facebook page and share or call our community engagement line at 404-880-6211. We'll be talking with and about women all month, and it would be great to include your favorite woman! Our series starts with Dr. Juel P. Borders-Benson. We spoke with Dr. Borders-Benson last month about growing up in Wheat Street Baptist Church. ...

WCLK's The Local Take(Saturdays 8am) reached out to our resident historian and former Atlanta Mayor and Ambassador Andrew Young to speak about our past,