The “For Colored Girls” Revival Off-Broadway Is a Vibrant Moment for Black Women

This seminal work is a part of our radical tradition and is still prescient

Jamara Wakefield
ZORA
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10 min readNov 29, 2019

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Photos: Joan Marcus

OnOn what would have been Ntozake Shange’s 70th birthday, a crowd filled The Public Theater in NYC to witness For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf performed in the round…

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Jamara Wakefield
ZORA
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Writer for publication and stage. Bylines for Shondaland, Playboy, Wear Your Voice, Our Prism, & Dame. Black. Indigenous. Queer. Decolonize everything.