Alice Walker
The Color Purple review – off-note musical take on Alice Walker’s novel
Director Blitz Bazawule turns the Pulitzer prize-winning saga of rape and racism into a nostalgic, tonally jarring song and dance spectacle
Wendy Ide
27, Jan, 2024 @3:00 PM
‘I had to stop therapy. I needed the pain’: Fantasia Barrino on trauma, triumph and filming The Color Purple
Barrino entered American Idol in 2004 as a young single mother who struggled to read, and won over the nation with her powerhouse voice and personality. Now she is starring in her first film. She discusses poverty, violence, Oprah – and gratitude
Zoe Williams
18, Jan, 2024 @10:00 AM
The latest adaptation of The Color Purple fails its lead character | Gloria Oladipo
The Oscar-tipped new hit movie based on Alice Walker’s award-winning novel is frustratingly coy about the queerness of its protaganist
Gloria Oladipo
02, Jan, 2024 @6:00 PM
The Color Purple review – a heartfelt new version supercharged by a powerhouse cast
The rough edges of Steven Spielberg’s 1985 adaptation have been softened but the evocative energy of this movie-musical’s three female leads is magical
Peter Bradshaw
19, Dec, 2023 @4:00 PM
I left my baby to write this. How do artists balance creativity and the ache for their child? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
All writers and painters who are mothers must tread a heroic path. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t have to, says the Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
06, Jan, 2023 @8:00 AM
‘Every goodbye ain’t gone’: remembering the life and work of Valerie Boyd
The beloved writer and editor, who edited 35 years of Alice Walker’s journals, died earlier this year and left behind a remarkable new book about Black resilience
K Anoa Monsho
14, Dec, 2022 @7:04 AM
The Color Purple review – musical romance rings hollow from a distance
Covid guidelines and clunky camerawork sadly undermine the ebullient performances in this digital adaptation of Alice Walker’s modern classic
Arifa Akbar
18, Feb, 2021 @12:34 PM
Former slave Bill Traylor's artistic legacy under threat from forgers
Dozens of fakes are on the market after one drawing of life in the US deep south sold for a record $507,000
Dalya Alberge
21, Jun, 2020 @6:44 AM
Allee Willis obituary
The songwriter behind the theme for the TV sitcom Friends and hits for Earth, Wind & Fire and the Pet Shop Boys
Adam Sweeting
26, Dec, 2019 @5:21 PM
Are we finally ready to talk about colourism? | Yomi Adegoke
Thanks to outspoken celebrities like Lupita Nyong’o, the discrimination faced by darker-skinned black people is finally being noticed. But we still have a long way to go
Yomi Adegoke
09, Oct, 2019 @5:30 PM
A black girl's reading list: 10 books to inspire and challenge
The authors of Taking Up Space, recent Cambridge graduates, list the books that have given them ‘permission to dream’
Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi
11, Jul, 2019 @7:00 AM
The Color Purple review – a musical with heart, spirit and soul
Alice Walker’s novel is transformed into an exuberant celebration of community and female empowerment
Mark Fisher
04, Jul, 2019 @2:00 PM
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