The College of Charleston hosts a week-long residency for Obie award-winning teacher, actor, and artist Roger Guenveur Smith

Roger Guenveur Smith created the Obie Award-winning A Huey P. Newton Story and adapted it into a Peabody Award-winning telefilm directed by his long-time colleague Spike Lee. Smith, who has extended family roots here in Charleston (his mother used to live at 57 Coming St., now the office of the Department of Psychology), is perhaps best known for his powerful performance as the stuttering Smiley, from Lee’s 1989 film Do the Right Thing. Smith will be in residence here at the College of Charleston, from Sunday, January 9 to Saturday, January 15, to lead workshops, round table discussions, present film screenings, and more. For more information and a full schedule of events, click here. This program is sponsored by The Humanities Council of South Carolina, as well as the following at the College of Charleston: the Avery Research center, the African American Studies Program, the Film Studies Program, the Department of Communication, and more. If you have questions, please contact Larissa Allison, Events Coordinator. All events are free and open to the public.