Gay South Florida (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
This week's GLBT History Month icons from Equality Forum: October 6th - Alice Walker Alice Walker is an award-winning writer, activist and self-proclaimed "Womanist." Best known for her novel "The Color Purple," Walker was the first African-American woman to receive...
Gay South Florida (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
(Come back tomorrow. This video changes daily.) THE ICONS 1. Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon 2. Stephen Sondheim 3. Gianni Versace 4. Sheila Kuehl 5. Tennessee Williams 6. Alice Walker 7. Greg Louganis 8. Bertrand Delanoë 9. Margaret Mead 10....
BobFromBrockley (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Posted too much today, so here's some navigation help: Jean-Charles would be turning... : funny pictures Cinematic : ramble through Lewisham's film history, with several interesting asides (or not) Alice Walker- loving the people : a critique of a terrible piece of writing The normblog profile 262- Karl Marx : The grear man as a blogger Persia/Al-Andalus : some music and poetry from the wider shores...
BobFromBrockley (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Note: This post makes has been percolating in my head since the weekend I read the article in the print edition of the Saturday Guardian, so I feel the need to get it down, even though it makes points quite similar to ones Noga has already made here . “I love the Jews really on en masse, en d é tail I strictly avoid him.” – Wilhelm von Humboldt, quoted by Hannah Arendt Luckily, Alice Walker will almost...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Writing the World To the Best of Our Knowledge (Wisconsin Public Radio) Host: Jim Fleming SEGMENT 1: Sherman Alexie has written novels, film screenplays and a short story collection. He talks with Steve Paulson about being a Native American writer. And, Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Color Purple." She talks with Jim Fleming about "Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth,"...
Diary of a Freak Magnet (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Just read it. My favorite paragraphs: The present administration and too many others before it have shown the most clear and unapologetic hatred for the American people. A contempt for our minds, our bodies and souls that is so breathtaking most Americans have numbed themselves not to feel it. How can they do this or that awful unthinkable thing, we ask ourselves and each other, knowing no one in...
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
ALICE WALKER is looking at Barack Obama and John McCain, and seeking Fidel Castro. No, not dear Che Guevara; he’s easy to find: This is what I want for our country, more than anything. I want a leader who can love us.. But when the lights are out and I’m left with just the stars in [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
By Alice Walker; Katie Hind GIRLS Aloud singer SARAH HARDING and boyfriend TOM CRANE tried to sneak out of the back door of Mahiki this week so they wouldn't be photographed. (c) 2008 People, The; London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.
normblog (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
This is what I want for our country, more than anything. I want a leader who can love us.So says Alice Walker. And who is the first exemplar for such loving leadership? It's Fidel:A leader who would not leave them...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Brad D. Lamm and Scott G. Sanders were married Saturday at the Bel-Air Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. The officiant was the novelist Alice Walker, who was ordained by Universal Ministries for the event.
Mick Hartley (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Alice Walker, well-known author and womanist, at CiF: I remember seeing a picture of Fidel Castro in a parade with lots of other Cubans. It was during the emergency years, the "special period" when Cuba's relationship with the Soviet Union...
Mulholland Drive (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Dear oh dear. Author Alice Walker decides that America needs a leader who loves them, just like that nice Castro fellow!I'm not sure how good an advertisement for Obama this is. I'm also not sure why Walker doesn't just move...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Alice Walker: Americans have been treated with contempt for so long that we have become inured to our own society's suffering
Ellipsis...Suddenly Carly (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
"I think it pisses God off, if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." -Alice Walker I can't believe we have already arrived at the letter "M" in Martha's A-Z Photo Challenge! But we are indeed here, and I found it difficult to narrow things down to just one "M." I think I came across more items I could have used with this letter, then most of the other ones. If I hadn't...
Appscout.com (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
As everyone from Alice Walker to Prince to Jerry Falwell could tell you, the color purple means a lot of things to a lot people. Yahoo! has long claimed the color as its own--a fact of which you may or may not be aware, especially since the color isn't exactly prominent on the company's current home page.
