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Did you know that Joyce Carol Thomas, author of over 30 books pledged Sigma Gamma Rho? Thomas is a proud member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Award-winning author of more than 30 books and several plays, including the acclaimed musical “Abyssinia”, internationally renowned and best-selling African-American writer Joyce Carol Thomas was born in Ponca […]
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Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
For the color, see Purple.
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.[1] [a] It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.
Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of African-American women in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence.[2] [3] In 2003 the book was listed on the BBCs The Big Read poll of the UKs best-loved novels.[4]
Celie is a poor, uneducated, 14-year-old girl living in the American South in the 1930s. She writes letters to God because her father, Alphonso, beats her harshly and rapes her continuously. Alphonso has already impregnated Celie once, a pregnancy that resulted in the birth of a boy she called Adam. Alphonso takes the baby away shortly after his birth. Celie has a second child, a girl she called Olivia whom Alphonso also abducts. Celies ailing mother dies after cursing Celie on her deathbed.
Celie and her younger sister, 12-year-old Nettie, learn that a man identified only as Mister wants to marry Nettie. Alphonso refuses to let Nettie marry, instead arranging for Mister to marry Celie. Mister, needing someone to care for his children and keep his house, eventually accepts the offer. Mister and his children, whose mother was murdered by a jealous lover, all treat Celie badly. However, she eventually gets Misters squalid living conditions and incorrigible children under control.
Shortly thereafter, Nettie runs away from Alphonso and takes refuge at Celies house, where Mister makes sexual advances toward her. Celie
Editor: I am writing this letter because the citizens of Burke County need to know the importance of the position of Director/Chief of the Burke County Emergency Management Agency (BEMA). In Burke County we were blessed to have one of the top directors in the United States, Chief Rusty Sanders. Chief Sanders served Burke County thirty three years building a […]
By Imani Wj Wright Special to the AFRO Oct. 16 marked the 25th Anniversary of the historic Million Man March in Washington, D.C. Initially called to action by Louis Farrakhan, the Million March was meant to 'convey to the world a vastly different picture of the Black male, along with uniting in self-help and self-defense […]
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At a time when disenfranchisement, voter suppression and voter intimidation are once again threats to democratic rights, DFW Metro Justice & Equality launched an Early Voting initiative called Souls to the Polls to encourage African-Americans to vote. Voters will meet at designated locations and caravan to local polling sites on the Super Sundays of Oct. […]
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Claudia Rankine earned a BA at Williams College and an MFA at Columbia University. Rankine has published several collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, the PEN Center USA Poetry Award, and the Forward poetry prize; Don’t Let […]
Season 1, Episode 16
Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Byron Hurt to talk about his new documentary in the making Soul Food Junkies. Later, Mark is joined in the studio by Blair Kelley to talk about her new book Right to Ride
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Soul Food Junkies Teaser
