{"id":1263,"date":"2023-02-16T14:33:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkansasdeltainformer.com\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2023-02-16T14:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:33:03","slug":"arkansas-black-hall-of-fame-to-host-annual-distinguished-laureate-series-featuring-actress-phyllis-stickney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasdeltainformer.com\/arkansas-black-hall-of-fame-to-host-annual-distinguished-laureate-series-featuring-actress-phyllis-stickney\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Arkansas Black Hall of Fame to host annual Distinguished Laureate Series, featuring actress Phyllis Stickney<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By The Arkansas Black Vitality Staff \u2013 The Arkansas Black Hall of Fame (ABHOF) will host its twelfth Distinguished Laureate Series on Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 6 p.m. at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, which will feature \u201998 inductee and award-winning actress Phyllis Yvonne Stickney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stickney will perform spoken word, read excerpts from her novel,\u00a0&#8220;Someone to Love,&#8221; and preview the documentary\u00a0<em>Becoming Phyllis Yvonne Stickney: The Road to Hollywood<\/em>\u00a0about her life and career. A reception will also follow an audience Q&amp;A.\u00a0The event is free and open to the public. Registration is requested and is available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/abhof-distinguished-laureate-series-xii-tickets-541584061507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eventbrite.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stickney, who was born in Little Rock, is best known for her television and film roles in the late 1980s and 1990s such as Tina Turner\u2019s sister,&nbsp;Allene, in the biopic&nbsp;<em>What\u2019s Love Got to Do with It<\/em>&nbsp;and others, including&nbsp;<em>Die Hard with a Vengeance<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>How Stella Got Her Groove Back<\/em>&nbsp;and the ABC-TV miniseries&nbsp;<em>The Women of Brewster Place<\/em>, which co-starred Robin Givens, Lynn Whitfield, Cicely Tyson, and Oprah Winfrey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She&nbsp;won two Audience Development Committee Recognition Award, which rewards excellence in black theater and performing arts, for her performance in Robert Furman\u2019s adaptation of Moli\u00e8re\u2019s&nbsp;Tartuffe, called&nbsp;<em>Monsieur Baptiste<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>Con Man,<\/em>&nbsp;and for Outstanding One-Person Performance for&nbsp;<em>Big Momma \u2018n\u2019 \u2019Em<\/em>, which was written and performed by Stickney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After studying at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Stickney began her acting career in Harlem, honing her acting and comedic skills at the University of the Streets Theater and New Heritage Repertory Theatre, the oldest nonprofit black theater company in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her TV credits include\u00a0<em>Law &amp; Order, New York Undercover<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Linc\u2019s<\/em>. Other film credits include\u00a0<em>New Jack City<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Jungle Fever<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Malcolm X<\/em>. Stickney was noted in the twenty-fifth-anniversary issue of\u00a0Essence\u00a0magazine as one of 200 African American women who have changed the world. In addition to acting, Stickney is a comedian, poet, playwright, producer, and motivational speaker. She has authored two books;\u00a0Loud Thoughts for Quiet Moments,\u00a0a poetry compilation she has been writing since the age of ten; and\u00a0<em>Someone to Love<\/em>, a novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#30#<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Arkansas Black Vitality Staff \u2013 The Arkansas Black Hall of Fame (ABHOF) will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,25,24,39],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasdeltainformer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasdeltainformer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasdeltainformer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasdeltainformer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasdeltainformer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasdeltainformer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasdeltainformer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasdeltainformer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasdeltainformer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasdeltainformer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasdeltainformer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}