For Colored Girls, 1977
akwong
Wed, 10/27/2021 – 11:26
Tombstone
Benny Andrews
Oil on canvas with painted fabric collage
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
© 2021 Estate of Benny Andrews/licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, Courtesy Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
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Watch: somebody/ anybody sing a black girl’s song – Runtime 1:06
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“somebody/ anybody sing a black girl’s song” – FOR COLORED GIRLS.
In the choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” playwright and poet Ntozake Shange uses poetry, song, and movement to tell the stories of survival of seven women of color.
Watch a scene titled “somebody/anybody sing a black girl’s song” from the 2019 revival at New York’s Public Theater.
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