Like mother, like daughter? Not always. Helena Andrews and her mother don't exactly agree on Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls.

Tyler Perry's film adaptation of 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf' is just the incarnation of Ntozake Shange's seminal choreopoem. Check out our feature page for reviews from around the black web, photos, a video interview of Shange, and, of course, our own take on Perry's homage.

Tyler Perry told the women of The View that For Colored Girls haunted him. But did it haunt someone else first?

In this exclusive interview with The Root’s contributing editor Harriette Cole, playwright-poet-novelist Ntozake Shange talks about the strokes that almost took her life, the new novel she wrote with her sister and what she told Tyler Perry when he told her he wanted to adapt her Tony Award-winning choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, for the big screen. (Hint: She’s not a fan of Madea.)