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Sing A Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Work Of Ntozake Shange by Imani Perry – Release Date: Sept. 12

Ntozake Shange was a renowned African-American playwright, poet and author known for her groundbreaking work that explored themes of race, gender and the Black female experience. The playwright, poet and literary essayist was best known for her Award-winning stage play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, which combined poetry and dance with the power of music and storytelling to address the struggles and resilience of Black women.

Before Shange’s name flooded the literary world, the profound writer cut her teeth as a student at Barnard College. She spent years cultivating her unique voice through personal essays, plays and her school’s literary journal. National Book award-winner, Imani Perry, has compiled all of the late literary giant’s unpublished work into a book that will give fans a look at her growth and development as a writer over the years. Through essays, poems and plays, readers will get to see the formative years of Shange’s writing career that led to her remarkable literary contributions before her untimely passing in 2018. 

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