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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photos by Getty Images/Collage by TheGrio Keke Palmer’s One of Them Days and seven other roles defined a career that made its own ...

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 ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Central Pennsylvania & beyond. From the very first scene, Open Stage Harrisburg and Sankofa's production of Akeelah and the Bee catches the audience's attention.

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 ...

“Akeelah and the Bee” is a genuinely sweet and determinedly inspirational family film that features a charming young actress in the title role. It’s a successful feel-good movie, but it would make you ...

Like last year’s “Bee Season,” the Tony-winning “The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” and the Oscar-nominated documentary, “Spellbound,” writer-director Doug Atchison’s “Akeelah and the Bee” ...

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, ...

If playwright Cheryl West's keen and moving adaptation of "Akeelah and the Bee" brings tears to the eyes of audience members — and many were sniffling during the extended standing ovation at Friday's ...

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 ...