Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf: A Choreo-Poem, with its spectrum of revelatory voices exploring a black woman’s experience, changed the face of ...

This novel set in Texas offers an insider's view of the African-American rodeo scene, with mixed success. Shange (for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf) vividly ...

Shange and Brown’s (We Troubled the Waters) book of poems about an escaping slave won’t be easy for some readers to get through. Whipping, pursuit by bloodhounds (“dogs’ll tear your/ muscle right off ...

“And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.” These affirming words are found in the book For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/ ...

Content warning: This story contains mentions of suicide. When playwright Ntozake Shange was a graduate student, she saw a double rainbow, a beacon of light in her depressive state. From this, her ...

FILE - Author Ntozake Shange attends a special screening of "For Colored Girls" in New York on Oct. 25, 2010. A classic play by the late Shange, "colored girls who have considered suicide/when the ...

Ntozake Shange, a spoken-word artist who morphed into a playwright with her canonical play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” died on Saturday in Bowie, Maryland ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by As ‘For Colored Girls’ returns to the New York stage, we look at how the show found its way from a Bay Area bar to Broadway in 1976. By Soyica Diggs ...

*The playwright who wrote the Broadway hit, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” has died. Ntozake Shange passed away Saturday morning (10-28-18), according to her ...

MADAMENOIRE is taking a moment to honor the life and spirit of the great Ntozake Shange, whose sunrise was October 18, 1948. Shange’s sunset was October 27, 2018. Shange lived. It cannot be overstated ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — A classic play by the late ...

She wrote lusty work about her life. She also started what may have been America’s first feminist press, Shameless Hussy, in her garage. By Penelope Green A new volume of the Black feminist’s ...