Spelman professor wins Peabody Award for health care documentary

Anjanette Levert produced “The Only Doctor” about the sole physician in rural Clay County.

Credit: Courtesy of Reel South

Dr. Karen Kinsell shakes the hand of Calvin Duncan after a positive appointment. Kinsell has been the only physician in Clay County for more than a decade. (Courtesy of Reel South)

By Jewel Wicker - For the AJC

June 5, 2025

Two years after the documentary she produced was released, Anjanette Levert received an unusual number of calls from the film’s main subject.

Perhaps because she was preparing for finals at Spelman University, where she is a film professor or because she’d just returned from a film festival and was exhausted, Levert said she didn’t immediately register this might be in regard to the Peabody Awards the film crew had been nominated for in April.

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Credit: Courtesy of Anjanette Levert

Spelman professor and documentary producer Anjanette Levert was won a Peabody. (Courtesy of Anjanette Levert)

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Jewel Wicker

Jewel Wicker is a native Atlantan who has covered hip-hop in the city for publications such as GQ, Pitchfork and Vice.