1 Alaska Thunderf*ck and J. Harrison Ghee Will Lead OH, MARY! National Tour From the very first scene, Open Stage Harrisburg and Sankofa's production of Akeelah and the Bee catches the audience's ...

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, ...

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 ...

Sarcophagus. Dulcimer. Fracas. Xanthosis. Those are words you might not expect every 12-year-old to know; but they are among the words spelled correctly in recent years by winners of the annual ...

“You know that feeling, that no matter what you do or where you go, you just don’t fit in?” Akeelah (Keke Palmer) is a resolute, self-protecting 11-year-old. As much as she feels alone, though, ...

In honor of Black History Month, I’ve got to say that Akeelah and the Bee is one of my favorite movies to watch during this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's easy to assume that winning a spelling bee is all about studying and memorizing hard words, their definitions, and their ...

The first product on the Starbucks Entertainment production line, this confection is as sugary, formulaic and all-American as you’d expect. And while US critics have gobbled it up with gusto, British ...

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 ...