For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Today's Featured Book of Color is Coretta Scott , a collection of poetry by Ntozake Shange dedicated to Coretta Scott King. This picture book also features large paintings by Kadir Nelson. The book details Coretta Scott and her life in the segregated south. She began work with Martin Luther King Jr. and launched the idea of nonviolent protest. The poetry explains the beautiful life and journey of...
Naki (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
For the last few days I've been asking you to spread the word about Sugar's quickly approaching tenth anniversary. But I won't be the only one celebrating a milestone in 2010 - Donna Hill, friend and fellow author will be celebrating her 20th anniversary in publishing!!! *applauding* Donna Hill writes under a variety of genres - romance, mystery and contemporary. She's a multi-talented, multi-faceted,...
Felicia Pride (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
There's a lot of debate about the movie adaptation for Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf" because of Tyler Perry's attachment to the project. Folks are either supportive or straight up mad . That's the Catch-22 of turning literary works into movies. It's great that books, and in this case, choreopoems, are getting attention. It's great...
Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Lionsgate really is priming itself up to be the go-to Hollywood studio for “black-themed” content. We know about their relationship with the always polarizing Tyler Perry, their acquisition of Precious, as well as their backing and eventual distribution of the adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls… Now, the mini-studio has reportedly partnered with Oprah [...]
What Would Thembi Do? (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Editors Note: This piece was originally a guest post at The Black Snob, but I wanted to make sure everyone caught it. If you want to jump in on the original discussion head on over to the comments there, otherwise comments, as usual, are also welcome here. Getting his hot little hands on Ntozake Shange’s 1975 play “For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf,"...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
LOS ANGELES — Being bad is good for Tyler Perry, whose latest movie, "I Can Do Bad All By Myself," opened at the top of the box office this weekend with more than $24 million. The Lionsgate comedy stars Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") as a hard-drinking nightclub singer forced to care for her delinquent niece and nephews. Besides directing...
NewBlackMan (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Why Tyler Perry Matters—and Why We Should Be Concerned by Mark Anthony Neal With seven theatrical releases, beginning with 2005’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman , that have grossed nearly $400 million and two syndicated television series, Tyler Perry is easily the most successful black filmmaker and producer in a generation. Perry has rode the house-dress of his most popular character, Aunt...
chris (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
I'll just repeat what many have been buzzing about over the weekend. Yes, Madea him-(er...herself), king (er...queen) of chitlins entertainment, is set to direct a screen adaptation of Ntozake Shange's classic...seminal...pivotal play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.” Read a little on movieweb here . Proving that contrary to Kanye's Katrina, George...
AfterEllen (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
A few months ago I wrote about Jasmine Guy directing a stage version of Ntozake Shange 's famous 1976 play For Girls Who Have Committed Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf in Atlanta this summer. Now Lionsgate has announced a feature film version of the play to be adapted, directed and produced by Tyler Perry. read more
NewBlackMan (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
Is Tyler Perry The Right Man To Tell Black Women's Stories? by Latoya Peterson Variety has broken the news that Tyler Perry has been asked to "write, direct and produce an adaptation of the 1975 play " 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.' " I can't say I'm thrilled. For those of you not familiar with Ntozake Shange, this summary at enotes provides...
Autrey (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Captain William Bligh This semester I'm teaching two sections of Advanced Writing, a course required for Elementary Education and Middle School Education majors. Because most of the forty students taking the class will before long be teaching reading and writing to young people, I had each of them write a paragraph beginning, "One book I will never forget is ____." Here's my own paragraph:...
Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Everyone is going crazy because Tyler Perry is going to write and direct the film adaptation of " For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf ." I'll admit to clutching my pearls along with everyone else. I'm late putting this post up because I really don't know what to say. I don't like Perry's work. I find Madea offensive. I also feel that his gender politics...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
I learned that Tyler Perry will be adapting Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" via Jay Smooth's Twitter feed , where he followed up the announcement with, "after this Perry will adapt the works of Audre Lorde, tentative title: 'The Master's Tools Are Gonna Build a Sunroof for My Big Ass House.'" I laughed, having just enough...
Me, Myself An Eye (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Quietly, this may have been the worst week for Black art and pop culture in YEARS, excluding the days following Michael Jackson's passing. Once again though, Twitter kept us looped in as we watched little pieces of the creative world around us crumble. It's good to know we have each other in these trying times. Here's a look at the things that made me say "How dreadful" about 50'leven times...
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