The Color Purple

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November 11, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - 'Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth', was one of a handful of special pre-festival screenings and talkbacks at…
October 11, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Along with writing novels, stories, poems and essays, Alice Walker has been keeping a diary...
July 18, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) - Grammy Award-winner Fantasia Barrino will star in the Broadway-bound 'After Midnight,' a musical revue celebrating Duke…
April 5, 2013
VIDEO - In a new online ad heralding Tyler Perry's move to the OWN cable network at the end of…
March 14, 2013
SLIDESHOW - Legendary producer and musician Quincy Jones was born 79 years ago today. Jones, known as 'The Dude' or…
November 16, 2012
The series is the brainchild of NBCUniversal Cable entertainment chairman Bonnie Hammer, who created the Erase the Hate campaign when…
June 19, 2012
Alice Walker, the author of the acclaimed novel 'The Color Purple', has publicly forbid Israel from translating her award-winning book…
February 26, 2012
SLIDESHOW - As we gear up for the awards tonight, and anticipate The Help's success, theGrio is looking back at…
October 7, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - A digital publisher of Pat Conroy, Alice Walker and other writers has formed an online book…
September 20, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple,' a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1983 and still a widely taught…
September 7, 2011
OPINION - What does this film's success mean for black people on film in the long run? Answer: not much,…
May 10, 2011
SLIDESHOW - Inspired by the 'Waiting to Exhale' reboot, here are some other classics we'd like to see revisited on…
December 17, 2010
OPINION - The success of 'The Color Purple' in publishing, Hollywood and on Broadway only proves that, in dreaming a…
December 9, 2010
OPINION - Would moviegoers be willing to buy into Oprah playing anyone other than, well, Oprah?...
November 12, 2010
A couple of decades can go by, and it's never too late to salvage a relationship and reunite with people…