(JTA) – The bright, colorful movie musical “The Color Purple,” which opens in theaters on Christmas, tells a story that has by now become a familiar part of the American canon — of a young Black woman ...

Alice Walker’s award-winning novel, The Color Purple, has been at the forefront of conversations about Black trauma since its initial release in 1982. The story, about a young Black girl living in ...

Alice Walker is the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she received for her 1982 novel The Color Purple. Walker was born and raised in Georgia. Her father was a ...

Inside a clear case on Level 3 of Emory University’s Woodruff Library, is a dark green spiral notebook, its innards crammed with small, flowing handwriting. The thoughts on those pages birthed a ...

Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Color Purple” became a 1985 Steven Spielberg movie that earned 11 Academy Award nominations, before being adapted as a 2005 Broadway musical that ...

The new musical adaptation of Alice Walker's book explores the romance between Shug and Celie, unlike Steven Spielberg's original 1985 film, which only featured a chaste kiss between the characters.

Fantasia Barrino in 'The Color Purple' Courtesy of Warner Bros. Alice Walker started the phenomenon with her Pulitzer-winning 1982 book, and three years later Steven Spielberg turned it into a movie ...

Just one day after Valentina Gennarelli's purple walker disappeared from the end of her driveway on Wednesday, the Stow fourth grader has been gifted a replacement. The Nimbo posterior walker, which ...