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Book Chat: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Book Chat: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Sat, Jul 13

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Socialight Society

Book Chat: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

by Ntozake Shange

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Jul 13, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Socialight Society, 5454 W Saginaw Hwy, Lansing, MI 48917, USA

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About the Book:

From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country for nearly fifty years. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be a woman of color in the 20th century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing…every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Now with new introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown, and one poem not included in the original, here is the complete text of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.

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