The Tyler Perry film version of Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls opens this coming week. What better moment to consider the representation of black women in popular U.S. culture. Forgive us if we cringe in anticipation … I was talking to my homegirl the other day about why she hadn’t yet seen the movie Precious: […]
Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange (1948-2018) was a playwright and poet who addressed issues relating to race, feminism and Black power. She is best known for her Obie Award-winning play, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.
10 Things To Know About Ntozake Shange and “For Colored Girls”
Poet, novelist, playwright and high priestess of black bohemianism Ntozake Shange (b. 1948) is resurgent in 2010. She and her sister, Ifa Bayeza, recently released the novel Some Sing, Some Cry, and her first and best-known play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow Is Enuf has been turned into a feature […]
Can Tyler Perry Pull Off a Black Feminist Masterpiece?
The mediasphere has been buzzing with skepticism since Variety announced over a year ago that Tyler Perry would write, direct and produce the adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf. The film is the first production for Perry’s 34th Street Films (a production division of […]