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for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf is a 1976 work by Ntozake Shange. It consists of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form which Shange coined the word choreopoem to describe. [5] It tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and ...
Lydia of Thyatira is most known as a "seller" or merchant of purple cloth, which is the likely reason for the Catholic Church naming her "patroness of dyers." It is unclear as to if Lydia simply dealt in the trade of purple dye or whether her business included textiles as well, [7] though all known icons of the saint depict her with some form ...
The Royal purple or Imperial purple was probably used until the time of Augustine of Hippo (354–430) and before the demise of the Roman Empire. Dye chemistry [ edit ] Variations in colours of "Tyrian purple" from different snails are related to the presence of indigo dye (blue), 6-bromoindigo (purple), and the red 6,6'-dibromoindigo.
Baron Samedi (English: Baron Saturday ), also written Baron Samdi, Bawon Samedi or Bawon Sanmdi, is one of the lwa of Haitian Vodou. He is a lwa of the dead, along with Baron's numerous other incarnations Baron Cimetière, Baron La Croix and Baron Criminel . He is the head of the Gede family of lwa; his brothers are Azagon Lacroix and Baron ...
Many Black women didn’t see it that way. Instead, many viewed Spielberg’s “Color Purple” as a refreshing depiction of their lived experience. One Chicago woman, Eartis Thomas, told The New ...
Winfrey said her role in Steven Spielberg's 1985 film “The Color Purple” served as a foundation for her future. It seemed only fitting that Oprah Winfrey chose to wear a flowing, full-length ...
Santa Muerte. Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte ( Spanish: [ˈnwestɾa seˈɲoɾa ðe la ˈsanta ˈmweɾte]; Spanish for Our Lady of Holy Death ), often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a new religious movement, female deity, folk-Catholic saint, [1] [2] and folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism and Neopaganism. [3] [4] : 296–297 A ...
The Color Purple remake star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor was disheartened that the film seemed to cut out a central queer story line. “The Color Purple is a book about Black lesbians. Whether the ...