An Evening with Alice Walker
Thu, May 25 from 7:30 – 9:30pm EDT Arts & Entertainment
Celebrate our exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 with acclaimed poet, novelist, activist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker in this intimate lecture inspired by her life’s work and the exhibition. Walker won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983… Continue reading
Alice Walker – Gather
Gather
©2014 by Alice Walker
for Carl Dix and Cornel West
It is still hard to believe
that millions of us saw Eric Garner die.
He died with what looked like a half dozen
heavily clad
policemen
standing on his body, twisting and crushing
him
especially his head
and neck.
He was a big man, too. They must… Continue reading
A Grievous Wrong Has Been Done To 5 Of Our Cuban Brothers: Such Good Men Are Hard To Find
©2014 by Alice Walker
It was an odd sensation in London recently to be part of an International Inquiry into the case of the Cuban (or the Miami) Five. (Two have recently, after serving 15 year sentences, been released). Since their arrest I… Continue reading
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