alice walker
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In Her Last Book, Valerie Boyd Amplifies the Voices of Black Writers
With Bigger Than Bravery, the legendary writer/editor assembled a powerful coalition of Black voices, including Alice Walker, Pearl Cleage and Deesha Philyaw.
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Zahara Will Be Fine at Spelman, Angelina Jolie. I Should Know.
Attending Spelman College may be the best years of Zahara's life.
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Netflix Lays Off Women Of Color As Stock Plummets
Netflix has pulled the plug on nearly its full team at fan site, Tudum, most of them Black, Latinx, and Asian women.
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Jon Batiste Tapped for The Color Purple Movie Musical
The Grammy-winning artist will be joined by fellow costars Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo Fantasia Taylor and more.
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Six Books by Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read in April 2022
You'll want to bring one of these great books along on your Spring Break trip
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The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Revisits In Search of The Color Purple
Nearly 40 years after Alice Walker's seminal work sparked controversy, we revisit our conversation about the pivotal novel with scholar Salamishah Tillet.
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As the 40th Anniversary of The Color Purple Nears, Alice Walker Gets Candid About Cancellation
The revered, occasionally reclusive and controversial author grants a rare interview to the Banished podcast.
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PageTurners: The Literary Journey of Black Voices
Black history has been passed down from generation to generation through storytelling. Stories of religion, trauma, love and family have been the backbone of our communities, and the most recent releases from Black authors continue that tradition. In a time where meeting and being together in person is near impossible, using literature to have deep…
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28 Days of Black Joy: Surrounded by the Black Gaze (A Collector's Story)
It started with a postcard. It arrived during my first semester at Sarah Lawrence, the private liberal arts college 40 minutes north of New York City (and as close to the city as my Midwestern parents would allow me to live) that I’d fallen in love with at first sight, bolstered by the fact that…