Ntozake Shange

It was published after 2 July with a dedication to the Earl of Rochester (not her friend the poet, who had died six years before); AB stopped the press until she was ready with her...

Evaristo lists her influences as including The Bone People by Keri Hulme , Mama Day by Gloria Naylor , The Famished Road by Ben Okri , The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro ,...

While writing this play, JK was reading Ntozake Shange 's For Colored Girls . . . , and admired the way she made poetry work as theatre The play was commissioned by the Theatre of Black Women

This job cemented her friendship with Gloria Steinem . Later, after her divorce, AW and June Jordan started The Sisterhood, a group of black women, artists of one kind of another, who met regularly for...