In this episode, we speak with actress and director Brenda Bynum and documentary filmmaker Hal Jacobs about the creative work they have done on the life and work of Lillian Smith and on Smith's importance to them. Brenda Bynum worked, for years, with the Alliance Theater in Atlanta and taught in the theater department at Emory for seventeen years. She is the writer/director/performer of "Jordan is So Chilly," a one-woman show on the life of Lillian Smith. Hal Jacobs is a documentary filmmaker who wrote and directed, along with his son Henry, "Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence" in 2019. He has also done documentaries on Mary Hambidge, Common Good Atlanta, the Northside Tavern, and more. His most recent documentary is "Just Another Bombing?: This is Donal and Iona's Story" about "a little-known incident of the 1960s Civil Rights era. Iona Godfrey King and her son Donal Godfrey share their deeply moving account of surviving a Klan bombing of their home with three other family members on February 16, 1964, in Jacksonville, Fla." You can see "Jordan is So Chilly" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMore3yvgQ8 You can see "Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence" here: https://www.hjacobscreative.com/lillian-smith You can see "Just Another Bombing?" here: https://www.hjacobscreative.com/jax-bombing

In this episode, we conclude our series on Lillian Smith and Religion, examining the intersections of religion, race, class, gender, and sexuality. We are joined by Rev. Dr. Benjamin Boswell, pastor of Myers Park Baptist Church, Rev. John Harrison, pastor of Nacoochee Presbyterian Church, Dr. Jennifer Morrison, Assistant Professor of English at Xavier University Louisiana, Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt, and Rev. Annanda Barclay, co-host of the podcast Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech. We spoke about how Lillian Smith's work, for all of the "sorrowful story" that she relates, provides us with hope for the future. To learn more about Lillian Smith and our work at the LES Center, visit us at https://https://www.piedmont.edu/lillian-e-smith-center/

This is the part two in a five-part series examining Lillian Smith's thoughts on religion in relation to issues of race, class, and gender. We are joined by Rev. Annanda Barclay, co-host of the podcast Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech, and Rev. John Harrison, pastor of Nacoochee Presbyterian Church in Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia. In this episode, we speak with Rev. Barclay and Rev. Harrison about Lillian Smith's essay "The Three Ghosts" and Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power." You can see Smith's essay here: https://library.piedmont.edu/c.php?g=521347&p=9040488 You can find Lorde's essay here: https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf You can listen to Lorde reading "Uses of the Erotic" here: https://youtu.be/aWmq9gw4Rq0?si=bSiOoqfCpBlcry3Y You can find the Moral Repair podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moral-repair-a-black-exploration-of-tech/id1708625744