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Alice Walker

September 2024

  • Fantasia Barrino as Celie and Taraji P Henson as Shug Avery in The Color Purple.

    Five of the best
    Five of the best books about female friendship

    Sally Rooney, Alice Walker and Nancy Mitford are among the writers who have charted complex and profound bonds that can last a lifetime

January 2024

  • Taraji P Henson, Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks in The Color Purple.

    The Color Purple review – off-note musical take on Alice Walker’s novel

    Director Blitz Bazawule turns the Pulitzer prize-winning saga of rape and racism into a nostalgic, tonally jarring song and dance spectacle
  • Fantasia Barrino

    ‘I had to stop therapy. I needed the pain’: Fantasia Barrino on trauma, triumph and filming The Color Purple

    Barrino entered American Idol in 2004 as a young single mother who struggled to read, and won over the nation with her powerhouse voice and personality. Now she is starring in her first film. She discusses poverty, violence, Oprah – and gratitude
  • This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Fantasia Barrino, left, and Taraji P. Henson in a scene from "The Color Purple." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

    The latest adaptation of The Color Purple fails its lead character

    Gloria Oladipo
    The Oscar-tipped new hit movie based on Alice Walker’s award-winning novel is frustratingly coy about the queerness of its protaganist

December 2023

  • Fierce charisma … Taraji P Henson in The Color Purple.

    The Color Purple review – a heartfelt new version supercharged by a powerhouse cast

    The rough edges of Steven Spielberg’s 1985 adaptation have been softened but the evocative energy of this movie-musical’s three female leads is magical

January 2023

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Republic of Parenthood
    I left my baby to write this. How do artists balance creativity and the ache for their child?

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    All writers and painters who are mothers must tread a heroic path. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t have to, says the Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

December 2022

  • Valerie Boyd

    ‘Every goodbye ain’t gone’: remembering the life and work of Valerie Boyd

    The beloved writer and editor, who edited 35 years of Alice Walker’s journals, died earlier this year and left behind a remarkable new book about Black resilience

June 2021

  • Gabourey Sidibe as Precious in the 2009 film adaptation of Push.

    ‘A heartbreaker and a heart mender’: how Sapphire’s Push birthed a new American heroine

    Twenty-five years after Sapphire’s novel Push was published, Tayari Jones salutes its groundbreaking heroine, Precious

February 2021

  • Winningly innocent ... T’Shan Williams as Celie in The Color Purple, by Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome.

    Lockdown culture
    The Color Purple review – musical romance rings hollow from a distance

    Covid guidelines and clunky camerawork sadly undermine the ebullient performances in this digital adaptation of Alice Walker’s modern classic

June 2020

  • Bill Traylor’s drawing Man on White, Woman on Red given by Steven Spielberg to Alice Walker.

    Former slave Bill Traylor's artistic legacy under threat from forgers

    Dozens of fakes are on the market after one drawing of life in the US deep south sold for a record $507,000

December 2019

  • Allee Willis at the Tony awards in New York, 2016.

    Allee Willis obituary

    The songwriter behind the theme for the TV sitcom Friends and hits for Earth, Wind & Fire and the Pet Shop Boys

October 2019

  • Yomi Adegoke

    Are we finally ready to talk about colourism?

    Yomi Adegoke
    Thanks to outspoken celebrities like Lupita Nyong’o, the discrimination faced by darker-skinned black people is finally being noticed. But we still have a long way to go

July 2019

  • Chelsea Kwakye & Ore Ogunbiyi are authors of the book “Taking Up Space, A Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change” The book explores what it means to be a black girl within education. Chelsea is in white and Ore is in Black.

    A black girl's reading list: 10 books to inspire and challenge

  • T’Shan Williams (Celie) and Danielle Fiamanya (Nettie) in The Color Purple.

    The Color Purple review – a musical with heart, spirit and soul

March 2019

  • Left to right, top: Yrsa Daley-Ward; Ayòbámi Adébáyò; Margo Jefferson; bottom, Panashe Chigumadzi; Nadifa Mohamed and Zoe Adjonyoh

    From Ayòbámi Adébáyò to Zadie Smith: meet the New Daughters of Africa

    More than 25 years after her groundbreaking Daughters of Africa anthology, Margaret Busby reflects on the next generation of black women writers around the world

December 2018

  • FILE - In this April 23, 2009 file photo, Alice Walker stands in front of a picture of herself from 1974 as she tours her archives at Emory University, in Atlanta. Walker and The New York Times are drawing fire after she praised an author who critics say is a conspiracy theorist who expresses anti-Semitism. In an interview in Sunday’s “By The Book” column, the author of “The Color Purple” said David Icke’s 1995 book, “And The Truth Shall Set You Free,” is on her nightstand. A New York Times spokesperson says the column is not a list of recommendations from its editors. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

    'We’ve informed you': New York Times defends running Alice Walker's David Icke recommendation

  • FILE - In this Sunday, March 8, 2009 file photo, US writer Alice Walker is seen during a visit in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. Emory University is unveiling the literary archives of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker for the first time since she donated the collection to the Atlanta college a year ago with a two-day symposium starting Thursday, April 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)

    Alice Walker under fire for praise of 'antisemitic' David Icke book

November 2018

  • Edinburgh International Book Festival 2018<br>First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (right) with author Ali Smith during a photocall at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday August 20, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

    Books blog
    Nicola Sturgeon's rebellious reads: from Donna Tartt to Ali Smith

    For Book Week Scotland, I have chosen a selection of inspiring books that also takes in Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Alice Walker and Simone de Beauvoir

August 2018

  • The six books sent to the suspended Ukip members.

    Ukip members sent 'mind-broadening' reading after bookshop attack

    Index on Censorship gives books promoting tolerance to two men suspended from party after attack on Bookmarks in London

June 2018

  • William Ferris at work

    William Ferris: the folklorist who made black America immortal

    Going from farm to front porch across America’s south in the 1960s, William Ferris recorded everything from praying pigs to haunting blues – a political act, he says, at a time when black voices were being silenced
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