Few stories impact as strongly as Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Color Purple." The bittersweet travails of Celie, Sofia, Nettie and Shug - four very different Southern black women who are, in many ways, equally repressed - tug the heartstrings, regardless of gender, age or race. ...more

November 23, 2009

Pulitzer-prize winning author Alice Walker, who wrote "The Color Purple," is traveling to Gaza along with other female activists to highlight the devastation of the Israeli offensive on Gaza's residents. ...more

March 8, 2009

Hidden in the theme-park sprawl of greater Orlando, a few miles from the shiny, the loud and the gargantuan, lies a quiet town where the pride and complications of the African-American experience come to life. ...more

September 30, 2008