NewBlackMan (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
“Precious,” about a disadvantaged young woman played by Gabourey Sidibe, left, has sparked controversy over its meaning . To Blacks, Precious Is ‘Demeaned’ or ‘Angelic’ by FELICIA R. LEE Published: November 20, 2009 A reinforcement of noxious stereotypes or a realistic and therapeutic portrayal of a black family in America? “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley (room pending, please check the Facebook link for updates: Alice Walker at Cal, http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=196044031293&ref=ts).
Macclesfield Quiz League - News & Views... (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Tighter than the next round of public service spending settlements at the top of the A League , where 5 teams find themselves with 6 points after 4 games, all only being separated on "points scored". The Ox- fford 'C' just head the table from the Weaver , followed by the Dolphin, Ox- fford and Dolphin Dragons . Stuart Rowbotham scored a personal best 36 as the Dolphin beat the Ox- fford in...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
My friend Salamishah Tillet compares the commercial successes of Daniels' Precious and Spielberg's The Color Purple here. Tillet examines further why the protests that welcomed Spielberg's adaptation of Alice Walker's novel have not resurfaced around D...
Isak (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
If you're not reading it already, there's a fascinating discussion going on over at Racialicious about African American literature and what may be, or may not be, disproportionate attention and acclaim for narratives that highlight horrible abuse and disfunction, as if that is the one "real" story. Discussed: Push, "Precious," and Percival Everett... for starters. Also, street lit,...
NewBlackMan (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
These two commercially successful, much-hyped films both explore incest, teenage pregnancy, illiteracy and colorism within the black community. So why has “Precious” not gotten “The Color Purple” treatment? The Color Precious by Salamishah Tillet Given its celebrity fanfare and feminist themes, is Lee Daniels’ Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire , a 21st-century...
Evenstar Art (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
i have learned not to worry about love, but to honor its coming with all my heart. to examine the dark mysteries of the blood with headless heed and swirl, to know the rush of feelings swift and flowing as water. the source appears to be some inexhaustible spring within our twin and triple selves; the new face i turn up to you no one else on earth has ever seen. alice walker
Macclesfield Quiz League - News & Views... (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Some very close games were fought out this week, 3 of them finishing with victories by a margin of just 1 point along with 1 match with a 2 point winning advantage. It was also “Derby Day” for many of the pubs with two teams playing from the same premises. In the A League , the Ox- fford just edged out the Ox- fford ‘C’ 146 – 134, Mark Watson top-scoring for the Ox- fford...
Professor VJ (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Now that the comprehensive exhibition in Athens is well underway, it's time for some serious name-dropping in another direction: What do John Ashberry, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, William Burroughs, Truman Capote, Robert Creeley. my old undergrad teacher Harry Crews, Louise Erdich, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Norman Mailer, Ted Mooney, my old undergrad teacher Alain Robbe-Grillet, Salman Rushdie,...
Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! It has just been announced that this year's reading selection for the city of Newark is THE COLOR PURPLE by Alice Walker! I will be leading the discussion. I'm still working the kinks out of the format, but it's going to kick off with a dramatic reading from the text by Broadway actor, Rosalyn Coleman Wiliams . (She is five kinds of fabulous and is generously donating her time.)...
Workers World news online (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Many leaders of the movements for change will come together Dec. 4-6 at the Sixth U.S./Cuba/Venezuela/North America Labor Conference in Tijuana, Mexico, just 15 minutes from San Diego. A special “Nothing Less than Freedom for the Cuban Five” dinner and program will greet family members of the anti-terrorist heroes unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. The Dec. 4 program will include a video of...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The Color Purple took its time -- 27 years, to be exact -- making the journey from the pages of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to the stage of Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Its fleeting run ends Sunday, but as the cheering crowd affirmed at Tuesday's opening, the musical is abundantly worth the wait.
Another 52 Books (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Read an epistolatory novel. These are novels written as a series of documents, e.g. letters or e-mails, blog entries, historical documents, reports, reviews, excerpts from books, newspaper clippings and diary entries. Basically anything that is traditionally written or typed, used without any connecting passages to form a narrative. It enables the author to let the characters (or a chosen number of...
Irenic Thoughts (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. —Alice Walker (1944- )
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Celie, the central character in Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple, lives a life most folks would consider unendurable.
Videos