An American novel classic has made its way its hometown stage. For the first time since the book was released in 1982 and its film adaptation in 1985, “The Color Purple” premiered as a musical ...

This year marks 40 years since the “The Color Purple” hit theaters. Two writers from “The Root” debate whether you can call ...

In the opening scene of the first film biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, the activist says people have always had a problem with her. "They had a problem with my disinterest ...

Actor Danny Glover speaks about Alice Walker's work in the context of activism. Howard Zinn on Alice Walker, His Former Student Howard Zinn compares his former student, Alice Walker, to Zora Neale ...

The Handmaid’s Tale' by Margaret Atwood, 'Beloved' by Toni Morrison and 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker also made the list ...

Legendary author, poet and activist Alice Walker joins us to discuss her newest book, “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way,” in which ...

Walker's memoir of the personal dilemmas and controversy surrounding release of the film based on The Color Purple. (Jan.) In linking meditation to wandering, the distinguished and prolific Walker, ...

A birthday message for Alice Walker was written on the windows of the Georgia Writers Museum. Hard Times Require Furious Dancing—one of Alice Walker’s more than 40 books—is perhaps the most apropos ...

“The Color Purple” author Alice Walker last week endorsed a book by a British conspiracy theorist frequently accused of anti-Semitism, and literary observers are speaking out on social media. Walker, ...

The front yard of Alice Walker's house in the Berkeley hills is a wonderland. Buddhist statues, yellow roses and trees lead to a virtual gateway to her front door: a spider web that's been intact so ...

Daniel Gordis—among others—has accused Alice Walker of Nazi-grade anti-Semitism for refusing to translate her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Color Purple, through an Israeli publisher. This doesn’t ...