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November 5, 2010
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.
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November 5, 2010
This week on the Confab: Join The Root Senior Editor Teresa Wiltz as she chats with Associate Editor Lauren Williams and contributor David Swerdlick about the midterm election results, Barack Obama's conservative tendencies and Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls.
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by Reginald Ponder onNovember 4, 2010
Thandie Newton chats with The Root about playing the tough-talking, sex-obsessed Tangie in Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls.
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by Abdul Ali onNovember 4, 2010
The men of For Colored Girls betray black women at every turn. One writer wonders where all the positive roles for black men have gone.
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November 3, 2010
Tyler Perry got the last word when it came to For Colored Girls, but powerful black women have played integral roles in the play's journey from stage to screen.
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November 3, 2010
How Tyler Perry turned an artistic classic into a crude cartoon.
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by Jacque Reid onOctober 27, 2010
Some black women thought Tyler Perry came close to saying he was gay on The Oprah Winfrey Show last week, but others heard something very different. Why the disconnect?
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by Helena Andrews onOctober 25, 2010
Tyler Perry told the women of The View that For Colored Girls haunted him. But did it haunt someone else first?
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by Nsenga Burton onOctober 21, 2010
The film mogul is able to finally speak about his father after his mother's death.
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October 11, 2010
This week on the Confab: Debt-collector abuse in the recession; Christine O'Donnell vs. Alvin Greene; Bishop Eddie Long and the news media; the Guatemala syphilis experiment's Tuskegee roots; and Ntozake Shange, Tyler Perry and Madea. Join The Root's deputy editor, Sheryl Huggins Salomon, as she discusses these issues with Senior Editor Teresa Wiltz, Associate Editor Lauren Williams and Washington reporter Cord Jefferson.
