Shange, Ntozake

The story of three African-American girls from Charleston go out into the world in their various directions without losing their sense of family.

The portrait of an extended black family where the thirteen-year-old daughter is striving to be grown up while facing prejudice and school busing pressures outside the family.

A poem in which Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood growing up in the company W.E.B. Du Bois, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Robeson, and other great African-American men who were instrumental in changing American culture and society.

The portrait of an extended African-American family in which the thirteen-year-old daughter strives to be grown-up while facing prejudice and school busing pressures outside of the family.

A "choreo-poem" reflecting the views of a black American woman about the women of her race.

Presents a collection of over sixty poems in both English and Spanish from the playwright behind the Broadway play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide" and "When the Rainbow is Enuf.".

A retelling of the poem "Mood Indigo". A reflective tribute to the African American community of old.

Presents a poetic story that explores the life of Coretta Scott King and her accomplishments during the Civil Rights Movement.

First published in 1975, Shange's choreopoem has been read and performed because it truly revealed what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions of the dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.

Describes in words and paintings the mystical rhythm of music that connects people together and defines individuals.