Spelman College

This guide to Spelman College in Atlanta centers on its Fine Arts Building, opening with a number that doesn't add up: seven hundred fifty thousand dollars built it in 1964, and far more was needed decades later just to save it. It follows the quiet, decades-long neglect that set in afterward, and the day actress LaTanya Richardson Jackson returned to find the building where she once trained as a student falling apart. In the early 1970s, she was a Spelman student and Sam Jackson a Morehouse student, and this building is where the two of them first acted together.