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Alice Walker
As the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Alice Walker helped to bring the Black experience to readers across the globe. A true trailblazer, her work continues to entertain and enlighten.
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60th Annual Tony Awards
Oprah Winfrey on the empowering nature of 'The Color Purple,' how it personally affected her, and how she came to own her own show at the 60th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, New York on June 11, 2006. (Footage...
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60th Annual Tony Awards
LaChanze, winner of Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for 'The Color Purple' on feeling great after having been nervous, the spirit of the show, and everything Oprah touches turning to gold at the 60th Annual Tony Awards...
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60th Annual Tony Awards
Felicia P Fields, nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for 'The Color Purple' on how great it feels to be nominated and how great Oprah is at the 60th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, New York on June...
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60th Annual Tony Awards
Oprah Winfrey on the differences between the book, movie and stage versions of 'The Color Purple' at the 60th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, New York on June 11, 2006. (Footage by WireImage Video/Getty Images)
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A Black Writer in the South | American Masters: Alice Walker
Alice Walker discusses the influence the strong women in her family and her experiences growing up on a plantation in Eatonton, Georgia had on her writing. Part of the American Masters series, the short video includes images of her...
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The Color Purple
A clip from the documentary Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth features Walker discussing her writing process and why she chose to write The Color Purple as an epistolary novel. The resource is part of PBS' American Masters...
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Gabrielle Union Discusses The Color Purple
Gabrielle Union discusses the role Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, plays in her life. She stresses the importance of readers being able to find reflections of themselves in literature.
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Resurrecting Zora Neale Hurston | American Masters: Alice Walker
Zora Neale Hurston, her life, her work as an anthropologist recording the customs and speech of southern Black people, and her novels would have remained largely ignored if not for the efforts of Alice Walker. An American Masters video...
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The Colors Song
A music video features two playful cats that explore the outside world to find colors. They showoff buckets of paint filled with primary colors and mix the paints together to create secondary colors.
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Look at All the Colors I Can See
Learn the colors of the rainbow with help from a music video that highlights 12 colors—primary and secondary.
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Learn Colors and Objects Song
The grass is green and the bus is blue! Find out what color other objects are with a kid-friendly music video that sings about real-world objects and the colors that represent them.
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"The Colors Song" - Learn the Colors Reggae
Sway to a fun tune and get to know the primary colors blue, yellow, and red. In addition, viewers see what happens when primary colors are mixed together to make secondary colors.