Brenda Bynum and Hal Jacobs "Dope with Lime" Ep. 57

In this episode, we speak with actress and director Brenda Bynum and documentary filmmaker Hal Jacobs about the creative work they have done on the life and work of Lillian Smith and on Smith's importance to them. Brenda Bynum worked, for years, with the Alliance Theater in Atlanta and taught in the theater department at Emory for seventeen years. She is the writer/director/performer of "Jordan is So Chilly," a one-woman show on the life of Lillian Smith. Hal Jacobs is a documentary filmmaker who wrote and directed, along with his son Henry, "Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence" in 2019. He has also done documentaries on Mary Hambidge, Common Good Atlanta, the Northside Tavern, and more. His most recent documentary is "Just Another Bombing?: This is Donal and Iona's Story" about "a little-known incident of the 1960s Civil Rights era. Iona Godfrey King and her son Donal Godfrey share their deeply moving account of surviving a Klan bombing of their home with three other family members on February 16, 1964, in Jacksonville, Fla." You can see "Jordan is So Chilly" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMore3yvgQ8 You can see "Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence" here: https://www.hjacobscreative.com/lillian-smith You can see "Just Another Bombing?" here: https://www.hjacobscreative.com/jax-bombing