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