I'll never forget my father, the product of a classical public education, seeing a robin while driving me to elementary school and exclaiming, "Ah! The first harbinger of spring!" Harbinger. I was in ...

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Akeelah Anderson can spell. She can spell better than anyone in her school in South Central Los Angeles, and she might have a chance at the nationals. Who can say? She sees the national spelling bee ...

DESPITE the injustice, looks and athletic ability usually lead to schoolyard popularity while smarts often lead to social ostracism and decades of therapy. So brainy students such as Akeelah Anderson ...

2 Watch: Next On Stage's High School & College Top 5 Revealed 3 Watch: Next On Stage Season 6 Finalists Revealed From the very first scene, Open Stage Harrisburg and Sankofa's production of Akeelah ...

Akeelah and the Bee is the latest story about a new national obsession with spelling bees—you may have heard of the book-turned-movie Bee Season, or, of course, the documentary Spellbound. Meet the ...

Akeelah Anderson can spell. She can spell better than anyone in her school in South Central Los Angeles, and she might have a chance at the nationals. Who can say? She sees the national spelling bee ...

That seemingly inexhaustible new movie subgenre, the spelling bee drama, receives its most conventionally uplifting treatment yet in "Akeelah and the Bee." Framed around the relationship between an ...

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The Selma, Alabama, native has fought all her life for those around her to identify her as female. Now, Akeelah Blu, 31, says she’s “living her wildest dreams” as the star of the Emmy-Award nominated ...

Spelling bees are all the buzz right now. Four years ago, the documentary Spellbound gave us a gaggle of eccentric, word-obsessed children—and their sometimes even more eccentric parents. Last year, ...