Renowned poet and playwright Ntozake Shange died on Saturday, according to an online post on behalf of her family on Twitter. She was 70. Shange passed away in her sleep at an assisted living ...

And adorning that 1977 billboard was a portrait of a young black woman in a do-rag: the playwright Ntozake Shange . Shange's rise to international fame and her sudden disappearance — followed by ...

Ntozake Shange, the poet and playwright behind For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf, died in her sleep Saturday morning at the age of 70, the Star Tribune reports.

NEW YORK — 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 ...

SING A BLACK GIRL’S SONG: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange, by Ntozake Shange. Edited by Imani Perry. Read by a full cast. A rhapsodic urgency can be felt in “Sing a Black Girl’s Song ...

Beloved poet and playwright Ntozake Shange died this weekend at age 70. The writer has been considered one of the most influential writers of our time, thanks in large part to her most famous work ...

So. It’s a Saturday night in Harlem, and it’s the year after I graduated college, and I am partying with some friends in my upstairs neighbor’s apartment. I am none too sober. We are actors ...

Ntozake Shange’s iridescent choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf” is the story of Black women and their often-disregarded human experiences.

By Soyica Diggs Colbert Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf” defied Broadway conventions when it opened at the Booth Theater on Sept.

My sister’s absence became even more pronounced for me when the poet, playwright, and author Ntozake Shange died on October 27th. Shange was just seventy when she passed and had been living in ...