Feb 04 2025 68 mins 2
We welcome Black History Month and the opportunity to celebrate Black History, Heritage and Culture with a conversation about famed The Color Purple. In this Part One episode, we cover the 2023 film adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel and the context surrounding all of its renditions. This is a story of Black Women - of survival, sisterhood, betrayal, pain, faith, hope and joy. We walk through the lives of each of the beloved women in this film, as well as the men who accompany them on their journeys. In Part Two, we will talk more about the phenomenal music and dancing, Sophia’s story, Black Joy, and what happened to the actors and Black film community after the release of the first film in the 1980s.
Thank you for joining us in conversation today, we encourage you to uplift Black voices, seek out education about Black culture and history, and support Black artists and businesses.
Featured Black artists of the week: “Black History, For Real” Podcast by Francesca Ramsey and Conscious Lee.
Trigger Warning: Rape, Physical and Sexual Abuse, Generational Trauma, Poverty, Racism, Patriarchy
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