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Ntozake Shange
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Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange, poet, novelist, playwright, and performer, wrote the Broadway-produced and Obie Award-winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. She has also written numerous works of fiction, including Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo, Betsy Brown, and Liliane.

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Tenderheaded will be released on October 19, 2004 in Trade Paperback
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Tenderheaded is now available in Trade Paperback
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Ellington Was Not a Street will be released on January 06, 2004 in Hardcover
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf will be released on September 01, 1997 in Trade Paperback
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Ellington Was Not a Street has won an award
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Ellington Was Not a Street has won an award
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Ellington Was Not a Street has won an award
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Ellington Was Not a Street has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
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Ellington Was Not a Street has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
News:
Ellington Was Not a Street has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
News:
Ellington Was Not a Street has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
News:
Ellington Was Not a Street has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
News:
Ellington Was Not a Street has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
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Ellington Was Not a Street has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
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Ellington Was Not a Street has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
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Ellington Was Not a Street has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
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Table of Contents from For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
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Chronicle Herald, November 18, 2009
...BARACH Obama’s autobiography, Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Three Rivers Press/Random House, $16.95), first published in 1995 and reissued in a revised edition in 2004, rewards reading today as a fascinating glimpse of the...
Playbill, November 9, 2009
...work at Steppenwolf includes premieres of his plays Carter's Way, Honest and Fake; and Nomathemba (co-written with Ntozake Shange and Joseph Shabalala), and The Song of Jacob Zulu, which was invited to the Perth International Arts Festival, ran on...
Blogcritics.org, October 23, 2009
...busy schedule and settle down for an interview with Clayton Perry — reflecting on the early influence of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 stage play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, the current climate for female...
Michigan Live, October 12, 2009
...It wasn't long after I heard that Tyler Perry would be bringing Ntozake Shange's groundbreaking For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf to the screen that I began to wonder which color Madea would get. The characters...
Library Journal, October 6, 2009
...s history will resonate with readers of strong African American feminist narratives like those of Toni Morrison and Ntozake Shange.? (LJ 9/1/09) *Victor Lodato. Mathilda Savitch. Farrar. Sept. (Arizona and New York) ?Engaging and humorous yet...
Diverse, April 11, 2009
...monologues performed by Black men, each representing an emotion. Scott says the play was inspired by feminist writer Ntozake Shange's 20-part choreopoem, 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf,' written during the mid...
Screen Africa, April 4, 2009
...Cape Town in 2002. She was the recipient of the Raith Scholarship. She debuted at the Baxter in Ntozake Shange?s For Coloured Girls Who Have Considered Suicide? (for which she won a Fleur de Cap, 2002) followed by the lead in Athol Fugard?s Valley...
Berkshire Eagle, March 5, 2009
...McNeil, a book club member from Great Barrington, said 'Before I had read 'Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo,' by Ntozake Shange, I could not imagine what it felt like to grow up as a black girl in the South. Reading gives me perspectives that I would not...
Arizona State University, February 20, 2009
...more spiraling, circular and work through an entire process before they reach the end.? From Toni Morrison to Ntozake Shange, and from Maya Angelou to Carolivia Herron, this interactive presentation highlights African American women writers from...
Centre Daily Times, February 6, 2009
...through books had been achieved and now it was time to share it. Photo provided Esteemed poet Ntozake Shange and renowned visual artist Romare Bearden collaborated on the visually stunning book 'I Live in Music.' The volume is included in the exhibit...
Alligator Online, December 2, 2008
...Ten UF students will perform Ntozake Shange's choreopoem, 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf' tonight in the atrium of Ustler Hall. The full?fledged performance grew out of a popular...
Michigan Movies & DVD, October 12, 2009
...Enuf cash for girls: When Tyler Perry talks of bringing Ntozake Shange's classic to the screen, look out! By Metro Times October 12, 2009, 1:50PM Larry Gabriel | Metro Times It wasn't long after I heard that Tyler...
NARMER'S PAGE, September 24, 2009
...Omowale Clay and Charles Barron.   Saturday, October 17 : the legendary Bluiett returns.   Saturday, October 24 : Poet Ntozake Shange with cellist Akua Dixon , dancer Mickey Davidson , plus plus….   Saturday, October 31 : Rene McLean and his...
ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blo, September 3, 2009
...– LIONSGATE announced today that it has acquired worldwide distribution rights to filmmaker Tyler Perry's adaptation of Ntozake Shange's award-winning 1975 play FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN ... Lionsgate Resurrects The...
Literanista, June 12, 2009
...of the World, journalist and best selling author of Sting like a bee, the biography of Muhammad Ali, Ntozake Shange – poet/playwright and author of For Colored Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow’s Enuff, Carlos Ortíz –...
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat, May 4, 2009
...I fell in love with this book, Coretta Scott, poetry by Ntozake Shange and Paintings by Kadir Nelson. "The illustrations", that's all I have to say, "the illustrations." They're mouth-watering, mind-blowing, so life-like but keep the simplicity that can...
The Late Adopter, April 30, 2009
...Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 , 2002. George Nelson, How to See: A Guide to Reading Our Man-Made Environment , 2003. Ntozake Shange and Kadir Nelson, Coretta Scott , 2009. DVDs: Martin Scorsese Collection , 2004. Time Bandits , 1981. Tokyo Story ,...
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank Multi-Media E-Zin, March 19, 2009
...of contents is a poetic who's who. From Emmy-winning West Coast writer Wanda Coleman and legendary playwright/novelist/poet Ntozake Shange, to Abiodun Oyewole! , a founding member of the Last Poets, and Mannafest, a Lon! don-based female duo, the range...
Traces of a Stream, March 2, 2009
...Jr. 13. Alice Walker 14. Gil Scott Heron 15. Langston Hughes 16. Maya Angelou 17. Sonya Sanchez 18. Ntozake Shange 19. W.E.B. Dubois 20. Dorothy Roberts 21. Zora Neal Hurston 22. Randall Robinson 23. Molefi Asante 24. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 25....
Poet Mom, February 23, 2009
...New and Selected Poems 1974-1994 13. Different Hours (Stephen Dunn) 14. Natural Birth (Toi Derricotte) 15. Nappy Edges (Ntozake Shange) 16. The Selected Poems of Frank O’Hara 17. Captivity (Toi Derricotte) 18. Picnic, Lightning (Billy Collins) 19. Tell...
minkler blog, February 3, 2009
...and dance their strength, beauty and enormous capacity for love. The seven women comprising the cast, including author Ntozake Shange, share with the viewer their exuberance for life and their ability to begin again, no matter how ridiculous the odds....
jacques, January 30, 2009
...and dance their strength, beauty and enormous capacity for love. The seven women comprising the cast, including author Ntozake Shange, share with the viewer their exuberance for life and their ability to begin again, no matter how ridiculous the odds....
Black Voices Blogs, January 23, 2009
...shower. You'll thank us later! Powell cites books by Toni Morrison and bell hooks, Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange, whose very popular 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf,' provided anthologies of empowerment and...
leffers blog, January 20, 2009
...and dance their strength, beauty and enormous capacity for love. The seven women comprising the cast, including author Ntozake Shange, share with the viewer their exuberance for life and their ability to begin again, no matter how ridiculous the odds....
Heraclitean Fire, December 3, 2008
...the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, Adrienne Rich, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Ntozake Shange, Sharon Olds, Saul Williams, Li-Young Lee or in fact most poets worth their salt supposed to be...
The Stranger: Slog, November 29, 2008
...the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, Adrienne Rich, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Ntozake Shange, Sharon Olds, Saul Williams, Li-Young Lee or in fact most poets worth their salt supposed to be...