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Kelundra

@pieceofkay.bsky.social
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Telling stories about Southern art & culture for your newsfeed, stage and screen. Articles in NY Times, Food & Wine, Garden & Gun, Atlanta magazine, and elsewhere. Publisher at TCG. Playwright behind THE WASH and OTHER PATHS TO GOD.

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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 18h
It's Sunday, which means the talking head shows will talk about things like affordability and why younger generations aren't marrying. Yet they won't mention that over the last 20 years, between military ops/war, prisons, and Covid, we've lost millions of men ages 18 to 35. You can't marry a ghost.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope that a community of experienced women reporters reach out to those brave young journalists at Cornell and equip them with advice and tools for how to handle the onslaught of online harassment that's not going to stop.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My new play, OTHER PATHS TO GOD, premieres in #Atlanta, Oct. 9-Nov. 8. This wild ride through the lives of 5 healthcare workers gives you the juiciness of Grey's Anatomy and the comedy of Scrubs. It's inspired by interviews with nurses in the South. Come laugh! www.horizontheatre.com/plays/other-...
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I was a RA at an SEC school in the 2010s. I wish the Cornell story was surprising. I wish Bama Rush was in any way exaggerated. They don't even begin to scratch the surface.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My hope for the nonprofit theatre as it emerges from yet another inflection point is that it actually emerges. www.americantheatre.org/2026/09/23/t...
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The American Nonprofit Theatre Movement Must Be Reimagined
The industry must not look away from a moment that is begging for it to change, writes publisher Kelundra Smith.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Throughout human history, every attempt to get people to choose technology over community has failed. AI will never scale the way corporate oligarchs want it to because people who make art like making art. People want to spend time with other people. They want to be part of something bigger.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The first day of autumn is here and the temperature is below 90 degrees! Counting down to Scorpio season!
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As someonewho was bused from 7th-10th grade, I relate to this deeply: "While the majority-white schools I went to provided me the best public education my small town offered, they had often been socially isolating and rife with racial tension." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Access to the most resourced public schools in my hometown allowed me to flourish academically, and I am convinced that the integrated education my husband and I received set the foundation that has allowed us to become the successful upper-middle-class family..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The entire editorial team of every outlet banned from the White House should show up to every press briefing every day until further notice. There are clearly whistleblowers in that administration and banning these outlets makes it easy to discredit the stories that are coming from those folks.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I teach arts journalism workshops often, and the first thing I say to students is to remove the language from their mouths, "the media..." this or "the media..." that. The media are your neighbors. One of the worst things to happen to journalism is that journalists got blamed for corporate greed.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
THE WASH in Tampa! "In a modern economy defined by soaring rent, stagnant wages, and collective burnout, watching six working women turn a tub of suds into economic leverage feels less like history and more like a group chat conversation from yesterday morning." www.cltampa.com/arts/this-pl...
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This play about Atlanta's 1880s washtub unions is Tampa Bay's most urgent show
The cast and director of Kelundra Smith's 'The Wash,' making its Florida premiere Oct. 1-11 at The Studio in St. Petersburg. (Rear L-R) Holly Marie Weber,
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sunny Hostin's take on using AI to get films made will result in filmmaking becoming like journalism, which is to say that when all the journalists got replaced by pundits, politicians, and attorneys people stopped trusting journalism and the concept of shared truth was completely eroded.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The hardest part of watching #Pluribus on Apple TV is having to admit that I'd probably respond just like Carol Sturka. I'd definitely be curious about how others are living and I might even ball out like the Kenyan man, but I'd also be crashing out.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
God don't play about me but sometimes does play with me and I be having to take it on the chin.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Imperfect Women" on Apple TV is some foolishness. Arrest them all.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Watching DEATH OF A PASTOR'S WIFE made me think about manipulation. The worst thing that happens to so many women in church is that they miss their calling to ministry (or into whatever they're called to do) trying to usher a man into his destiny. Give yourself 100% of you and start giving at 101.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I wish there was anything surprising about the Netflix docuseries "Death of a Pastor's Wife," but unfortunately it follows all of the typical plot points of these conservative evangelical "church" cults. There is always grooming and a tattoo. #Netflix #docuseries
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
When I was doing higher ed comms, at some point I had a manager who made us put our copy in the Hemingway app so that we would write everything at a third to fifth grade level. They said people would not give to the university if they felt it was inaccessible. Now reading comprehension is gone.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Today is Black Bookstore Day so I had to add two new books to the library. I purchased a new book of short stories which is one of my favorite genres. Yay!
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I love that Apple TV has given Maya Rudolph, MJ Rodriguez, and Ron Funches this much budget to be this foolish. #Loot #LootSeason3
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I do love that every bar is playing Dolly Parton right now. She completed her life's assignment. May we all be so lucky.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
OTHER PATHS TO GOD opens at Horizon Theatre in Atlanta on October 16! Thanks for featuring the show, ArtsATL! www.artsatl.org/the-2026-fal...
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The 2026 Fall Arts Preview: Our picks in Theater - ARTS ATL
From classic theater to cutting-edge musicals to world premieres, Fall 2026 delivers something for everyone to the stage. :: Playwright Kelundra Smith. (Photo by Allen Cooley) Horizon Theatre’s fall s...
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The recent tragic stabbing on the Atlanta BeltLine and the social media reporting around it are why you can't replace journalists with influencers. Witnesses said one man was trying to rob another, but that wasn't true. Journalists know to wait to report until after further investigation.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Calling for an end to flock cameras and not Waymo is weird. Waymos are surveilling more than a flock camera ever could. I get the passion and the desired end; I don't get the means.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I haven't had a chance to fact check this list but it seems like a good source for tracking info. I want some reporters to go interview all the families though. I'm sure the Equal Justice Initiative is tracking as well. my.atlist.com/map/06d7fd1b...
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Atlist
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
One of the things that The Devil Wears Prada 2 highlights so vividly is the generational difference between jumping to action and waiting something out. There is wisdom in both. And also, too many people have been in positions for so long because they have too much vacation time to fire them.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We didn't finish the war which is why we have to stay on the battle field for civil rights.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
PALM ROYALE on AppleTV is truly delightful. The costumes, music, farce, and glamour of it all!!! #PalmRoyale
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
People have been deceived into thinking they want division and subtraction and they really want addition and multiplication.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Robert Townsend on camera for 2 minutes in season 5 episode 8 of THE BEAR is some of the most brilliant acting ever. A craftsman.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
So much of adulthood is managing other people and then managing your own well-being relative to not being able to manage other people.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This #BigChicken documentary that #MoGilligan produced on #Netflix is really brave for an entertainer to not only acknowledge how he's contributed to harm but also show all the brand logos. He will NEVER have a chicken brand endorsement. The doc is a must watch and its mostly women fighting back.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Watching this #LittleHouseonthePrairie remake on #Netflix and thinking about this in the context of a media landscape that includes the #Yellowstone universe and #TradWife propaganda, I can't help but think about how dangerous it is to depict colonialism in the 21st century absent of resistance.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I love that Survival of the Thickest got to exist and that they let Michelle Buteau just do whatever. Also, it's my favorite series to shop from. Introduced me to Maya Winston bags.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This is one of the most fun interviews I've done. Ice cream flavors as holidays? Yes, please! gardenandgun.com/nashville-ic...
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Talking Scoops with Nashville’s Ice Cream Queen
Lokelani Alabanza channels childhood nostalgia and her forebears in her new cookbook
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"But a calling must be funded" www.theroot.com/where-the-tr...
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Inside the New Black Media Ecosystem
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Gabrielle Dennis reminding everyone that she is an ACTRESS #Nemesis #Netflix
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I have gone down the rabbit hole on this Okra Project mess and as someone who has worked in/around nonprofits for many years, it's clear this is an instance of what you don't know will hurt you. 2 rules: (1) Don't raise $ til you have a legal place to put it (2) Never jeopardize organizational trust
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Today's adventures included being stuck behind a #Waymo that got confused on Dekalb Avenue in Atlanta...and you can't even blow the horn
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I want whatever strain inspired Boots Riley to write I LOVE BOOSTERS. It's a colorful, incisive, vibrant, hopeful, and necessary film. Boots has been trying to start a labor movement for years and it's past time. #ILoveBoosters
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I also want people to keep the same energy they have for Dr. Cheyenne Bryant for Dr. Umar Johnson. I said what I said.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I want all social media videos where people put leafy vegetables and meat on the same pan in the oven on the same temperature at the same time banned from the internet. Spinach and steak don't take the same time in the oven. This is fraud for views.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
So Sombr is giving The Killers for a new generation. Got it. #AMAs
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Shailene Woodley was acting with her whole being on this season of PARADISE on Hulu. Give that woman a SAG and an Emmy nod.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The 15th Amendment, which says that no one can be denied voting rights based on previous condition of servitude, was the last and most difficult to ratify of the Reconstruction amendments. It took 7 years after the Civil War and it nearly died. The Fed withheld $ from states to make them ratify.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I know I'm late, but this #NatureBoy documentary is wild. But what's wilder and most heartbreaking is that it's all the result of people fleeing police brutality. This is a casestudy in how racism erodes the spirit. Imagine running from racism to wind up in a cult. I feel for all of these people.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We really lost something as a society when we stopped clapping when the plane landed.
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Excited to be at the National New Play Network convening at B Street Theatre in Sacramento this weekend! There are more than 65k plays on the NPX Exchange, making it the largest database for new plays by living writers!
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Kelundra @pieceofkay.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"Changing the world for future generations is hard work, and transformation like that brought about by the Atlanta washerwomen is often unsung." www.wbur.org/news/2026/04...
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'The Wash' reclaims the forgotten fight of Black washerwomen
The Front Porch Arts Collective will perform staged readings of Kelundra Smith's new play. It draws on the 1881 Atlanta Washerwomen's Strike, one of the first major labor actions led by Black women in...
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