Luther Cox never intended to become a dance teacher. As an accounting student at Florida A&M University, he literally wandered into a West African dance class in progress and the course of his life was changed forever. Cox went on…
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Momma And Daddy: Laura Crawford, “Robert Popper’s Song”
Laura Crawford’s father, Dr. Robert Popper, narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Nazis during the antisemitic pogrom known as Kristallnacht. The unbelievable journey that ensues is a globe-spanning journey of courage, luck, endurance and love. Crawford, who founded…
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Love – November 11, 2017 – 7:30 P.M.
Let’s talk about love. The 13th All Y’all live storytelling event, “Love,” will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 11 at the historic Woman’s Department Club of Shreveport. The event will feature five true stories – told live…
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Haunted: Clay Walker, “Ghost Stories”
Shreveport, Louisiana – where the All Y’all podcast and live storytelling series is produced – is a small town in some ways. Following the announcement that All Y’all was seeking stories of the paranormal for our November 2016 event,…
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Podcast Exclusive: Derek Wayne Johnson, “Friends with the Cobra Kai”
Derek Wayne Johnson was born in Carthage, Texas, about an hours’ drive southwest of Shreveport, Louisiana. He fell in love with cinema at an early age, developing a special affinity for the films Rocky and The Karate Kid. Those films…
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I Just Work Here: Winston Hall, “Look at All of the Little Black Dots”
Careers are tricky things. Sometimes, you pursue one career only to wind up in another line of work. Other times, a career sort of finds you – you take a job to make ends meet and, years later, you realize…
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The Skin I’m In – August 26, 2017 – 7:30 P.M.
The 12th All Y’all live storytelling event, “The Skin I’m In”, will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 26 at the historic Woman’s Department Club of Shreveport. The event will feature six true tales of the human body,…
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Striking a Chord: Our Thoughts on Stories of the Strings
Bobby Roth was a heavy metal fan. His music grated on his mom’s nerves and irritated their neighbors in Broadmoor, but that didn’t matter to Bobby. He and his friends would hang out in the garage and play Slayer and…
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Haunted: Steven Abney, “Personal Demons”
Ghost stories can be a lot of things: visceral, frightening, unnerving. But very seldom do they drift into territory that could be described as intimate or personal. Storyteller Steven Abney took the stage at our Nov. 12, 2016 live event,…
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I Just Work Here: Amy Lynn Treme, “Monty”
Some folks are just natural born storytellers. Amy Lynn Treme, a pre-K teacher who lives in Shreveport’s Highland neighborhoood, is one of those folks. When All Y’all announced that we’d be presenting a night of stories about work (“I Just…
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