The Color Purple

Remembering Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple

Sheril Antonio | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: African American Film, The Color Purple, Alice Walker, Black Actors, Steven Spielberg, Entertainment News
Sheril Antonio

While I am not usually nostalgic about the past, nor am I prone to "the-good-old-days" talk there is something important about The Color Purple and the decades that would follow its release.

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The Oscars, Once Again, Leave Blacks the Color Purple

Brian Ross | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Television, The Color Purple, Oprah Winfrey, The Help, Ampas, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Racism, The Oscars, Viola Davis, Oscars, Film, Hollywood, Race, Movies, African Americans, Bv-Pop-Culture-Entertainment, Black Voices News
Brian Ross

The Oscars are known for many odd customs and bits of superstition, but American Blacks best know the Color Purple Curse. Viola Davis was upset by the veteran Meryl Streep at the Oscars, even though Davis had won the Screen Actors Guild award days earlier.

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George Lucas vs. Hollywood Racism: Who Will Prevail?

Christian Piatt | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Religion, The Color Purple, Economics, Red Tails, Steven Spielberg, Jon Stewart, George Lucas, Racism, Terrence Howard, Tuskegee Airmen, The Daily Show, Cuba Gooding Jr, Hollywood, Video, Entertainment News
Christian Piatt

Lucas himself noted that this was perhaps the first major "all black action film" ever made. He pointed out that few with African Americans playing all major roles ever made it to wide distribution, save for the frugally produced work of Tyler Perry.

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'The Color Purple' Released As eBook

AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 11.20.2011

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NEW YORK -- Alice Walker's "The Color Purple," a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1983 and still a widely taught and talked about novel, is finally coming out...

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`The Color Purple' Released As An E-Book

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 11.20.2011

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NEW YORK — Alice Walker's "The Color Purple," a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1983 and still a widely taught and talked about novel, is finally coming ou...

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Alice Walker: Israel And America Are Terrorist States

Foreign Policy | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: The Color Purple, Gaza Strip, America, Alice Walker Interview, Terrorism, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Terrorist States, Alice Walker, Israel, Books News

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker will join the flotilla of ships next week that will try to break Israel's maritime blockade of the Gaza Str...

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Is Oprah Headed To Broadway?

The Theater Loop | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: The Color Purple, Oprah Winfrey, Oprah, Chicago, Theatre, Broadway, Plays, Kenny Leon, Fences, The Oprah Winfrey Show, August Wilson, New York, Arts News

Oprah Winfrey has long said she would love to return to acting. But as her iconic, Chicago-based talk show approaches its final episode, Winfrey clear...

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Tribute to Whoopi Goldberg and African-American Actors -- Why We Need Black and Women's History Months

Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: The Color Purple, Oprah Winfrey, 92 Street Y, Golden Globes, Barbara Walters, New York Times, The View, Whoopi Goldberg, Sister Act, Media, New York, The Hollywood Reporter, Style, Entertainment, Women's History Month, Academy Awards, Essence Magazine, Halle Berry, Oscars, Hattie McDaniel, Tony Awards, Joy Behar, Grammy Awards, Black History Month, Media News
Beverly Wettenstein

I was appalled by the Academy's egregious "oversight," omitting Goldberg from their Oscars retrospective. For the record, she has appeared in over 50 films.

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Why Isn't the Oprah Winfrey Network More Diverse?

Cocoa Popps | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Television, Own, Oprah Winfrey, Blacks-in-Media, Diversity, The Oprah Winfrey Network, Men of a Certain Age, Lisa Ling, Hispanics, Psych, Undercovers, Gayle King, Dr Phil, Nate Berkus, The Great Debaters, Blacks, The Color Purple, People of Color, Underrpesented, Minorities, Entertainment News
Cocoa Popps

Winfrey, you have won. So let us all enjoy your victory by providing programming that reflects and respects the ethnic diversity of the world in which we live.

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Please Don't Feed the Narcissist: The Fantasia Barrino Follies

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The X-Files, Bill Clinton, Fantasia Barrino, Verizon, The Color Purple, Eliot Spitzer Prostitution, Freud, Suicide, Clinical Depression, Broadway, Religious Faith, God, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Oprah Winfrey, Rudy Giuliani, Tiger Woods, Hoarders, Ingmar Bergman, Turner Classic Movies, Narcissism, General Hospital, American Idol, Fantasia, Arts News
Melody Breyer-Grell

Here I am, writing another piece regarding an American Idol spawn, and hating myself for it.

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'The Color Purple' Author Alice Walker Didn't Want To Be At Pulitzer Ceremony

NBC New York | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Color Purple, Authors, Literary Prizes, Alice Walker, Books, Fiction Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Books News

"The Color Purple" author Alice Walker, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for her highly acclaimed novel, said last night she didn't want to pick up ...

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Talking with Oscar Winning Producer, Gerald R. Molen (LISTEN)

Jeff Rivera | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Schindler's List, The Color Purple, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, GERALD R MOLEN, Whoopi Goldberg, Jeff Rivera, Entertainment News
Jeff Rivera

It was a special treat to interview my friend, Oscar-Winning producer, Gerald R. Molen. Molen and I have known each other for nearly a decade and I ...

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Broadway Stars Chad Kimball and Montego Glover Talk Memphis

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South, Huey Calhoun, Musical, Tonys, The Color Purple, Michelle Obama, Felicia Farrell, Chad Kimball, Memphis, Broadway, Sondheim, Into the Woods, Montego Glover, Health Care, Bon Jovi, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

I caught up with the two leads of Memphis, Chad Kimball and Montego Glover -- and asked them what it's been like to be a part of the latest Broadway smash.

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The Pride of Precious Jones

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whites, Harlem, Poverty, Gabourey Sidibe, Real Estate, Race, Hollywood, Barack Obama, New York, Rodney King, South Africa, Unemployed, Precious, Oprah Winfrey, Lenny Kravitz, Blacks, Paula Patton, Lee Daniels, Michael Mccollom, Brooklyn, Sapphire, Push, Mo'Nique, Armand White, A. O. Scott, Divas, The Color Purple, New York Press, Mariah Carey, New York Times, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Almost every African-American knows, is related to, or is acquainted with a Precious Jones or her mother, Mary.

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Precious and Painful

Esther Iverem | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edward P. Jones, The Color Purple, Sapphire, Halle Berry, Mariah Carey, Literary Prizes, Mo'Nique, The Known World, Alice Walker, Precious, Gabourey ?€œGabby? Sidibi, Lee Daniels, Black Unemployment, Entertainment News
Esther Iverem

In Precious, director Lee Daniels returns to the formula that has won him acclaim in the past: stories of poor Black women who are too pathetic, sick and incapable of caring for themselves or their children.

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