Tag: #BlackHistoryMonth
8 Things You May Not Know About Alice Walker
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ungpressbooks.comAlice Walker—novelist, poet, feminist, and civil rights activist—was born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She is most famous for her novel The Color Purple (1982), which was later turned into a movie (1985) directed by Steven Spielberg and is still performed as a musical today. She had her hands…
Writing for Change- Ryan Coogler
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ungpressbooks.comEvery year, the Organization of Black Students (OBS) at the University of Chicago invites a guest speaker to deliver the “Kent Lecture” to the University population. The speaker is generally involved, in some measure, with promoting black culture in the United States and speaking about their work regarding black issues.…