Author Ntozake Shange of 'For Colored Girls' fame has died
Source: ABC News
Playwright, poet and author Ntozake Shange, whose most acclaimed theater piece is the 1975 Tony Award-nominated play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf," died Saturday, according to her daughter. She was 70.
Shange's "For Colored Girls" describes the racism, sexism, violence and rape experienced by seven black women. It has been influential to generations of progressive thinkers, from #MeToo architect Tarana Burke to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. After learning of Shange's death, Nottage called her "our warrior poet/dramatist."
"She spoke for, and in fact embodied, the ongoing struggle of black women and girls to live with dignity and respect in the context of systemic racism, sexism and oppression," Savannah Shange said.
"For Colored Girls" is an interwoven series of poetic monologues set to music Shange coined the form a "choreopoem" for it by African-American women, each identified only by a color that she wears.
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Hat tip to a post on GD for alerting to this.
This is such a loss!