PINE BLUFF -- Jasmine Guy -- actor, dancer and director -- will give the keynote address for the annual Women's History Month Celebration at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
In addition to her work in the arts, Guy is a motivational speaker, appearing at more than 100 events a year at universities, conventions and corporations. She was the main speaker in 2015 at Ultimate Women's Expo events in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix.
The UAPB speech will be held at 10:30 a.m. March 9 in the John McLinn Ross theater of the Hathaway-Howard Fine Arts Center on the UAPB campus. Admission is free and open to the public.
Guy began her professional career at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. She appeared on Broadway in the original productions of Beehive and Leader of the Pack, and reprised productions of Grease, The Wiz and Chicago.
She is currently performing in Raisin' Cane, a one-woman musical journey through the Harlem Renaissance.
Guy played Whitley Gilbert on A Different World. The spinoff of The Cosby Show focused on students in a historically black college.
In 2004, she wrote Evolution of a Revolutionary, a biography of Afeni Shakur, who was a Black Panther, activist and mother of slain rapper Tupac Shakur.
Metro on 02/27/2017