Wanda's Picks Radio Show

Today we host a Tribute to Ntozake Shange. We open with a prerecorded interview with the late playwright, poet, novelist and co-director, Cassandra Henderson. October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018)(PoetryFoundation.org).

Our guests include: Claudia Alick, Lisa Brimmer, Nanna Mwaluko, Halifu Osumare 

Shange is best known for the Obie Award-winning play for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. She also penned several novels including Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982), Liliane (1994), and Betsey Brown (1985), a novel about an African-American girl who runs away from home. Among Shange's honors and awards were fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, and a Pushcart Prize. In April 2016, Barnard College announced that it acquired Shange's archive.[3] Shange lived in Brooklyn, New York (wikipedia).