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Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange 0000000110376632 Ntozake Shange was an educator, dancer, poet, and playwright, best known for her theatre piece 'For Colored Girls'. Born on October 18, 1948, she studied at Barnard Co...

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Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza

Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza MULTIPLE Ifa Bayeza is a renowned author known for her collaboration with her sister, Ntozake Shange. Ifa Bayeza (l) with her sister Ntozake Shange (r)

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Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance

by Ntozake Shange

Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance Ntozake Shange 9780807091876 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press In her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and c...

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Sing a Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange

by Imani Perry

Sing a Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange Imani Perry 9780306828515 Fiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Featured In: The Millions "Most Anticipated" Books of 2023 Lit...

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The Sweet Breath of Life: A Poetic Narrative of the African-American Family

by Ntozake Shange

The Sweet Breath of Life: A Poetic Narrative of the African-American Family Ntozake Shange 9780743478977 Poetry Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Words and images come together in this inspiring coll...

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Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems

by Ntozake Shange

Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems Ntozake Shange 9781501169939 Poetry Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and celebrated Broadwa...

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Ifa Bayeza

Ifa Bayeza NONE Ifa Bayeza is an acclaimed playwright, producer, and theater artist. Known for works like “Amistad Voices” and “The Ballad of Emmett Till,” she's won the 2008 Edgar Award and 2007 Eug...

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Freedom’s a-Callin Me

by Ntozake Shange

Freedom’s a-Callin Me Ntozake Shange 9780061337413 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Award-winning poet Ntozake Shange and artist Rod Brown reimagine the journeys of the brave men and women who made th...

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Lost In Language & Sound: Or How I Found My Way To The Arts:Essays

by Ntozake Shange

Lost In Language & Sound: Or How I Found My Way To The Arts:Essays Ntozake Shange 9780312206161 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers A vibrant and vital collection that celebrates the th...

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Betsey Brown: A Novel

by Ntozake Shange

Betsey Brown: A Novel Ntozake Shange 9780312134341 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers This is a unique and vividly told novel about a girl named Betsey Brown, an African American seventh-grader grow...

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Float Like a Butterfly

by Ntozake Shange

Float Like a Butterfly Ntozake Shange 9781368008273 Nonfiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Muhammad Ali is considered by many to have been the finest athlete of the twentieth century. Here is a co...

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Some Sing, Some Cry: A Novel

by Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza

Some Sing, Some Cry: A Novel Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza 9780312552718 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Award-winning writer Ntozake Shange and real-life sister, award-winning playw...

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Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice

by Clarence V. Reynolds

Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v2 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2010 “The Power of ...

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Betsey Brown: A Novel

by Ntozake Shange

Betsey Brown: A Novel Ntozake Shange 9780312541231 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Praised as "exuberantly engaging" by the Los Angeles Times and a "beautiful, beautiful piece of wri...

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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel

by Ntozake Shange

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel Ntozake Shange 9780312541248 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Ntozake Shange’s beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters...

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Some Sing, Some Cry: A Novel

by Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza

Some Sing, Some Cry: A Novel Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza 9780312198992 Fiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Award-winning writer Ntozake Shange and real-life sister, award-winning playwri...

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Float Like a Butterfly

by Ntozake Shange

Float Like a Butterfly Ntozake Shange 9780786805549 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Muhammad Ali, considered by many to be the finest athlete of the twentieth century...

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If I Can Cook/You Know God Can (Bluestreak Series)

by Ntozake Shange

If I Can Cook/You Know God Can (Bluestreak Series) Ntozake Shange 9780807072417 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange offers this delightfully eclectic tribute to black ...

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Liliane: A Novel

by Ntozake Shange

Liliane: A Novel Ntozake Shange 9780312644109 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Through the polyphonic voices of Liliane Lincoln’s childhood friends, lovers, and conversations with her...

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For Colored Girls

by Ntozake Shange

For Colored Girls Ntozake Shange B003Y5H4ZM Poetry Independently Published Independently Published Read an AALBC.com Film Review Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, and Whoopi Goldberg head up an all-star...

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We Troubled the Waters

by Ntozake Shange

We Troubled the Waters Ntozake Shange 9780061337352 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Jim Crow; Brown v. Board of Education; Bull Connor; KKK; Birmingham; the Lorraine Motel; Rosa; Martin; and Malcolm....

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Ellington Was Not a Street

by Ntozake Shange

Ellington Was Not a Street Ntozake Shange 9780689828843 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. In a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, not...

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Ridin’ the Moon in Texas

by Ntozake Shange

Ridin’ the Moon in Texas Ntozake Shange 9780312889296 Poetry St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Collection of poems by Ntozake Shange, inspired by visual arts. A fine hardcover copy with embossed...

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Three Pieces

by Ntozake Shange

Three Pieces Ntozake Shange 9780140481709 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House Poet and playwright, Ntozake Shange, celebrates the Black experience in three plays; “Spell No. 7,” “Boogie Woogie L...

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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf

by Ntozake Shange

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf Ntozake Shange 9780684843261 Poetry Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. From its inception in California in 1974 to its ...

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The Love Space Demands: A Continuing Saga

by Ntozake Shange

The Love Space Demands: A Continuing Saga Ntozake Shange 9780312076276 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Songs of love and urban tragedy from one of the preeminent African-American write...

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nappy edges

by Ntozake Shange

nappy edges Ntozake Shange 9780312064242 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers nappy edges collects poetry and poetic prose by "a writer of unusual power and resonance … A leading black po...

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I Live in Music

by Ntozake Shange

I Live in Music Ntozake Shange 9781556703720 Poetry Stewart, Tabori & Chang Rizzoli International Publications Shange’s lyrical poem is a tribute to the language of music and the magical, often mystic...

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Grocery Shopping with My Mother

by Kevin Powell

Grocery Shopping with My Mother Kevin Powell 9781593767433 Poetry Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press “Kevin Powell returns with a poetic time capsule written with love in honor of his mother’s evolutio...

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The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora

by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora Mecca Jamilah Sullivan 9780252086038 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Includes 25 Black & Wh...

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Coretta Scott

by Ntozake Shange

Coretta Scott Ntozake Shange 9780061253669 Nonfiction Katherine Tegen Books HarperCollins Walking many miles to school in the dusty road, young Coretta Scott knew the unfairness of life in the segrega...

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Daddy Says

by Ntozake Shange

Daddy Says Ntozake Shange 9780689830815 Fiction Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. "Do you really think she rides with us, Lucie? I mean, when we want to win so bad we can ...

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Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism

by Kimberly W. Benston

Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism Kimberly W. Benston 9780415009485 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of Black cultur...

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Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry

by D-Knowledge

Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry D-Knowledge 9781573226547 Poetry Riverhead Books Penguin Random House African-American poetry is an ever-growin...

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Whitewash

by Ntozake Shange

Whitewash Ntozake Shange 9780802784919 Fiction Walker and Company Bloomsbury Publishing A young African-American girl is traumatized when a gang attacks her and her brother on their way home from scho...

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Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo: A Novel

by Ntozake Shange

Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo: A Novel Ntozake Shange 9780312140915 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo is the story of three "colored girls," three sisters and their ...

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From Okra to Greens: A Difference Love Story

by Ntozake Shange

From Okra to Greens: A Difference Love Story Ntozake Shange 9780915124893 Fiction Bookslinger Bookslinger  

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See No Evil: Prefaces, Essays and Accounts, 1976-1983

by Ntozake Shange

See No Evil: Prefaces, Essays and Accounts, 1976-1983 Ntozake Shange 9780917672217 Fiction Momo’s Press Momo’s Press essays on black theater, dance, music

Film Review

For Colored Girls

by Kam Williams

For Colored Girls Kam Williams images/img47.jpg Film Review   Black Feminist Classic Refreshed Courtesy of Tyler Perry For Colored Girls [2010] Click to order via Amazon Rated for ...

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AALBC.com Interview with Jeff Chang

by Kam Williams

AALBC.com Interview with Jeff Chang Kam Williams Interview Kam Williams: Hi Jeff. Thanks for the time and congratulations on the NAACP Image Award nomination for Who We Be. You used to ...

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AALBC.com's The “For Colored Girls” Interview with Thandie Newton

by Troy Johnson

AALBC.com's The “For Colored Girls” Interview with Thandie Newton Troy Johnson Article Read the Interview with Thandie Newtown and also check out AALBC.com's interview with Janet Jackson, and a r...

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Kazembe

Kazembe NONE Lasana Kazembe is a renowned poet, essayist, and lecturer, recognized for his performances at literary venues across Chicago. Garnering accolades such as the 1st Place Winner of the Gwen...

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Every Where Alien

by Brad Walrond

Every Where Alien Brad Walrond 9780063377998 Poetry Moore Black Press/Amistad HarperCollins “Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding… . Brad Walrond defies aesthetic bo...

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The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

by Courtney Thorsson

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture Courtney Thorsson 9780231204729 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press One Sunday afternoon in Feb...

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Black Women Writers at Work

by Claudia Tate

Black Women Writers at Work Claudia Tate 9781642598407 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books “Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wi...

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We Are Not Wearing Helmets: Poems

by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

We Are Not Wearing Helmets: Poems Cheryl Boyce-Taylor 9780810144231 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press We Are Not Wearing Helmets is a collection of political love poems rendered ...

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One Night in Georgia

by Celeste O. Norfleet

One Night in Georgia Celeste O. Norfleet 9780062329899 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Set in the summer of 1968, a provocative and devastating novel of individual lives caught in the grips of violent h...

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(V.)

by Anastacia-Reneé

(V.) Anastacia-Reneé 9781939568342 Poetry Black Ocean Black Ocean In 1974, when Ntozake Shange first released the cannon of Black girl magic known as For colored girls who have considered suicide / ...

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The Magic Of Juju: An Appreciation Of The Black Arts Movement

by Kalamu ya Salaam

The Magic Of Juju: An Appreciation Of The Black Arts Movement Kalamu ya Salaam 9780883781968 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press A contextual historical examination of the civil rights move...

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For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Still Not Enough: Coming Of Age, Coming Out, And Coming Home

by Keith Boykin

For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Still Not Enough: Coming Of Age, Coming Out, And Coming Home Keith Boykin 9781936833153 Nonfiction Magnus Books Magnus Books In 1974, p...

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Testing the Ice: A True Story about Jackie Robinson: A True Story about Jackie Robinson

by Sharon Robinson

Testing the Ice: A True Story about Jackie Robinson: A True Story about Jackie Robinson Sharon Robinson 9780545052511 Nonfiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Sharon Robinson, daughter of baseball ...

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Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now

by Ishmael Reed

Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now Ishmael Reed 9781568583426 Fiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Using the yardstick that a short stor...

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A Half-Red Sea

by Evie Shockley

A Half-Red Sea Evie Shockley 9780932112538 Poetry Carolina Wren Press Carolina Wren Press In a half-red sea, Evie Shockley is “dreaming the lives of the ancestors.” Navigating against prevailing curre...

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Stardust Tracks on a Road

by DuEwa M. Frazier

Stardust Tracks on a Road DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905221 Poetry Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Stardust Tracks is a classic literary offering, from a young writer with an old, traveling sou...

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“After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement

by Cheryl Clarke

“After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement Cheryl Clarke 9780813534053 Poetry Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies ha...

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Inner-course: A Plea for Real Love

by Toni Blackman

Inner-course: A Plea for Real Love Toni Blackman 9780375509148 Poetry Villard Villard Toni Blackman is an international champion of hip-hop culture, known for her irresistible, contagious performance...

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Dark Eros: Black Erotic Writings

by Reginald Martin

Dark Eros: Black Erotic Writings Reginald Martin 9780312155087 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers A compelling collection of African-American erotic literature includes poetry, fiction, ...

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Where a Nickel Costs a Dime: Poems

by Willie Perdomo

Where a Nickel Costs a Dime: Poems Willie Perdomo 9780393313833 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A first book of poems by one of the best new voices to emerge from the Nuyori...

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The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry

by Clarence Major

The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry Clarence Major 9780060951214 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins The Garden Thrives: 20th Century African-American Poetry, edited by Cla...

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Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry

by Charlotte Watson Sherman

Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry Charlotte Watson Sherman 9780060553517 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins A powerful collection of original and recent stories and poems by some of...

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Erotique Noire/Black Erotica

by Miriam Decosta-Willis, Reginald Martin, and Roseann P. Bell

Erotique Noire/Black Erotica Miriam Decosta-Willis, Reginald Martin, and Roseann P. Bell 9780385423090 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House A collective work of art whose time has come. Of lasting valu...

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Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction

by Terry McMillan

Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction Terry McMillan 9780140116977 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House A striking collection of works from authors both establis...

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Rod Brown

Rod Brown NONE Rod Brown is a fine artist and the illustrator of We Troubled the Waters and Freedom’s a-Callin’ Me, both by Ntozake Shange, as well as From Slave Ship to Freedom Road by Julius Leste...

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Edel Rodriguez

Edel Rodriguez 0000000367958056 Edel Rodriguez is a Cuban-born illustrator, known for his award-winning work, including the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators. Notably, he served as Time mag...

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Didi Anofienem

Didi Anofienem NONE Didi Anofienem, a Houston-born novelist and educator based in Los Angeles, holds degrees from Columbia University, University of San Francisco, UT-Austin, and University of Housto...

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Courtney Thorsson

Courtney Thorsson 0000000401626056 Courtney Thorsson is a Professor of English at the University of Oregon. She teaches, studies, and writes about African American literature from its beginnings to t...

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