A community organizer named Velma Henry attempts suicide, and, in the struggle of a group of wise women to restore her to life, Velma reflects on her past. Interwoven with her story are the stories of others: her husband, her godmother, a doctor, a former pimp and street hustler. Bambara's belief is that true healing for blacks can be accomplished ...
Featuring Dash's story and production notes in her own words, this compelling chronicle of her struggle to complete Daughters of the Dust--the first nationally distributed film by an African American woman--is a book that every film buff and student of the art will want to own. Includes 16 pages of full-color photos from the film.
Featuring a new Introduction by celebrated writer and critic Dr. Eleanor Traylor, this groundbreaking anthology brings together the emerging voices of some of today's most celebrated authors, writing about what it means to be a black woman in America.
Six stories, unpublished at Bambara's untimely death, plus six essays, all of which examine the role of the writer as activist and demonstrate her concern for the lives of the most powerless black Americans.
A community organizer named Velma Henry attempts suicide, and, in the struggle of a group of wise women to restore her to life, Velma reflects on her past. Interwoven with her story are the stories of others: her husband, her godmother, a doctor, a former pimp and street hustler. Bambara's belief is that true healing for blacks can be accomplished ...
These three-CD collections feature audiences' best-loved selections from National Public Radio's "Selected Shorts", an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. More than three hours of recordings in each collection capture the intimacy ...
Toni Cade Bambara died in 1995. Toni Morrison has gathered her unpublished works and compiled this tribute to her. In her introduction she places her work in its literary and political context revealing her special relationship as friend and editor.
This posthumously published novel, 12 years in the writing, is about a family's reaction when their oldest child disappears. The police investigation is inadequate, and the boy's parents join an activist group to protest police inaction and try to solve the mysteries of the missing children of Atlanta. The unfinished manuscript of this novel was ...
Toni Cade Bambara writes about the twin themes of oppression and hope as she describes the experiences of black women and their resilience and ability to resist and survive.
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