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Eatonton to celebrate native daughter Alice Walker’s 75th birthday on July 13

Kelundra SmithJuly 5, 2019

When Alice Walker wrote, “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it,” she was referring to the vivid wi...

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News: The sixth annual Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities

ARTS ATL StaffOctober 9, 2017

The awards were presented in partnership with the Georgia Council for the Arts and Georgia Humanities....

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Preview: Lost literary voices will be revived and revered this weekend at GSU

Christeene AlcosibaMarch 31, 2017

We have our gods in the Southern canon. We speak their names in high school and university English classes every fall. We have idolized or snickered at their stories and lives. We have embraced or disputed their presence in monolithic anthologies of literature. Nonetheless, we continue to conjure them: William and Flannery. Carson, Harper, Truman, and Tennessee....

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“Generations holding hands” Author Valerie Boyd edits literary hero Alice Walker’s journals.

Gail O'NeillOctober 13, 2015

Alice Walker and Valerie Boyd in conversation in 2013. (Photo by Phields Photography) Valerie Boyd vividly recalls the first time she came face to face with h...

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Review: “The Help,” a feel-good chick flick set in the civil-rights era South

Valerie BoydAugust 11, 2011

Valerie Boyd is the author of "Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston" and the forthcoming "Spirits in the Dark: The Untold Story of Black Women i...

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