Publication day is here for “Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker,” a book that has kept Alice Walker fans waiting for an “intimate glimpse into an important writer’s life.” ...

Alice Walker is defending the controversial views of famous author J.K. Rowling. In a new essay posted to her website, The Color Purple author challenged naysayers to understand Rowling’s insensitive ...

(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 ...

(RNS) — Alice Walker, the human rights advocate and celebrated author of, among other poetry and fiction, the award-winning 1982 novel “The Color Purple,” had been invited to the Bay Area Book ...

For years, the public has responded to the celebrated author’s anti-Semitism by either sidelining her or ignoring her prejudice. We can do better. I wrote a piece laying out this bigotry in ...

After the San Diego Community College District announced that Alice Walker would be the keynote speaker for the new Chancellor’s installation, protests immediately followed. Various Jewish ...

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 ...

The San Diego Community College District has asked Alice Walker to speak at the investiture of the new chancellor, Carlos O. Cortez. Walker’s continuing popularity is not hard to explain. She won the ...

Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker, who were sharecroppers. When Alice Walker was eight years old, she ...

This film tells the compelling story of an extraordinary woman's journey from her birth in a paper thin shack in the cotton fields of Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of the twentieth ...