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Alice Walker

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Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. [1]

128 relations: Abortion, Academy of American Poets, African-American literature, Alan Dershowitz, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, Alicia Keys, American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Humanist Association, Anderson Valley, Apartheid, Artist-in-residence, BB gun, BBC Radio 4, Blockade, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, Broadway theatre, California, California Hall of Fame, California Institute of the Arts, Candace Award, Cane (novel), Chelsea Manning, Cherokee, Civil rights movement, Classified information, David Icke, Democracy Now!, Department of Welfare of Differently Abled Persons (Tamil Nadu), Desert Island Discs, Dressmaker, East Africa, Eatonton, Georgia, Editing, Emory University, Everyday Use, Feminism, Flotilla, Fort Pierce, Florida, Gaza City, Gaza Freedom March, Gaza War (2008–09), Georgia (U.S. state), Global Exchange, Gloria Steinem, Guggenheim Fellowship, Harcourt (publisher), Hebrew language, Howard Zinn, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Ingram Merrill Foundation, ..., International Women's Day, Iraq War, Israel, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, Jean Toomer, Jews, Jonathan Kay, Ku Klux Klan, LennonOno Grant for Peace, Lillian Smith Book Award, Literary agent, MacDowell Colony, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King Jr., Maxine Hong Kingston, Melvyn R. Leventhal, Meridian (novel), Miscegenation, Mississippi, Ms. (magazine), Muriel Rukeyser, NAACP, National Book Award, National Book Award for Fiction, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, National Endowment for the Arts, National Post, New York (state), New York City, Non-governmental organization, O. Henry Award, Oprah Winfrey, Patriarchy, Poetry Foundation, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Pratibha Parmar, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Putnam County, Georgia, Racism, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Rebecca Walker, Reptilians, Robert L. Allen, Sarah Lawrence College, Scholarship, Sexism, Shapeshifting, Sharecropping, Southern United States, Spelman College, Spirituality, Staughton Lynd, Steven Spielberg, Suicide, Tel Aviv, Terrorism, Terry Tempest Williams, The California Museum, The Color Purple, The Color Purple (film), The Color Purple (musical), The Jerusalem Post, The Temple of My Familiar, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Third-wave feminism, Toronto International Film Festival, Tougaloo College, Tracy Chapman, Transcendental Meditation, University of Massachusetts Boston, Valedictorian, W. W. Norton & Company, Warrior Marks, White House, Whoopi Goldberg, Womanism, Zora Neale Hurston. Expand index (78 more) »

Abortion

Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus.

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Academy of American Poets

The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry.

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African-American literature

African-American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent.

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Alan Dershowitz

Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and academic.

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Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth is a documentary film directed by Pratibha Parmar, made by Kali Films production company.

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Alicia Keys

Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter.

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American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member honor society; its goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art.

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American Humanist Association

The American Humanist Association (AHA) is an educational organization in the United States that advances secular humanism, a philosophy of life that, without theism or other supernatural beliefs, affirms the ability and responsibility of human beings to lead personal lives of ethical fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.

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Anderson Valley

Anderson Valley is a sparsely populated region in western Mendocino County in Northern California.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Artist-in-residence

Artist-in-residence programs and other residency opportunities exist to invite artists, academicians, curators, to reside within the premises of an institution.

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BB gun

BB guns are a type of air guns designed to shoot metallic ball projectiles called BBs — metal balls approximately the same size as the "BB" lead birdshots.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Blockade

A blockade is an effort to cut off supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force, either in part or totally.

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Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (also known as the BDS Movement) is a global campaign promoting various forms of boycott against Israel until it meets what the campaign describes as " obligations under international law", defined as withdrawal from the occupied territories, removal of the separation barrier in the West Bank, full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and promotion of the right of return of Palestinian refugees.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Hall of Fame

The California Hall of Fame honors individuals and families who embody California’s innovative spirit and have made their mark on history.

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California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, known by its nickname CalArts, is a private university located in Valencia, California.

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Candace Award

From 1982 to 1992, the National Coalition of 100 Black Women bestowed the Candace Award on "Black role models of uncommon distinction who have set a standard of excellence for young people of all races".

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Cane (novel)

Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer.

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Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning, December 17, 1987) is an American activist, whistleblower, politician, and former United States Army soldier.

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Cherokee

The Cherokee (translit or translit) are one of the indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

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Classified information

Classified information is material that a government body deems to be sensitive information that must be protected.

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David Icke

David Vaughan Icke (born 29 April 1952) is an English writer and public speaker.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González.

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Department of Welfare of Differently Abled Persons (Tamil Nadu)

The Department of Welfare of Differently Abled Persons of state of Tamil Nadu is a department of the Government of Tamil Nadu, India.

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Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Dressmaker

A dressmaker is a person who makes custom clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns.

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East Africa

East Africa or Eastern Africa is the eastern region of the African continent, variably defined by geography.

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Eatonton, Georgia

Eatonton is a city in and county seat of Putnam County, Georgia, United States.

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Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information.

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Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in the Druid Hills neighborhood of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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Everyday Use

Short storyAlice Walker | narrator.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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Flotilla

A flotilla (from Spanish, meaning a small flota (fleet) of ships, and this from French flotte, and this from Russian "флот" (flot), meaning "fleet"), or naval flotilla, is a formation of small warships that may be part of a larger fleet.

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Fort Pierce, Florida

Fort Pierce is a city in and the county seat of St. Lucie County, Florida, United States.

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Gaza City

Gaza (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998),, p. 761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory in Palestine, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza...". غزة,; Ancient Ġāzā), also referred to as Gaza City, is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip, with a population of 515,556, making it the largest city in the State of Palestine.

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Gaza Freedom March

Gaza Freedom March was a non-violent political march in 2009 to end the blockade of the Gaza Strip, planned to depart on 31 December from Izbet Abed Rabbo, an area devastated during Operation Cast Lead, and head towards Erez, the crossing point to Israel at the northern end of the Gaza Strip.

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Gaza War (2008–09)

The Gaza War, also known as Operation Cast Lead, also known as the Gaza Massacre and the Battle of al-Furqan by Hamas, Secondary source, Abdul-Hameed al-Kayyali, Studies on the Israeli Aggression on Gaza Strip: Cast Lead Operation / Al-Furqan Battle, 2009 was a three-week armed conflict between Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Israel that began on 27 December 2008 and ended on 18 January 2009 in a unilateral ceasefire.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Global Exchange

Global Exchange is an advocacy group and non-governmental organization (NGO), based in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Gloria Steinem

Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts".

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Harcourt (publisher)

Harcourt was a United States publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children.

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Hebrew language

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Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, and social activist.

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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

Published in 1983, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose is a collection composed of 36 separate pieces written by Alice Walker.

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Ingram Merrill Foundation

The Ingram Merrill Foundation was a private foundation established in the mid-1950s by poet James Merrill (1926-1995), using funds from his substantial family inheritance.

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International Women's Day

International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8 every year.

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Iraq War

The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

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Jackson State University

Jackson State University (Jackson State or JSU) is a public historically Black college and university ("HBCU") in Jackson, Mississippi, United States.

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Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the capital city and largest urban center of the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer, December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an African American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Jonathan Kay

Jonathan Hillel Kay (born September 18, 1968) is a Canadian journalist.

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Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.

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LennonOno Grant for Peace

The LennonOno Grant for Peace is an award presented by artist and peace activist Yoko Ono.

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Lillian Smith Book Award

Jointly presented by the Southern Regional Council and the University of Georgia Libraries, the Lillian Smith Book Awards honor those authors who, through their outstanding writing about the American South, carry on Smith's legacy of elucidating the condition of racial and social inequity and proposing a vision of justice and human understanding.

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Literary agent

A literary agent (sometimes publishing agent, or writer's representative) is an agent who represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers, film producers, and film studios, and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same.

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MacDowell Colony

The MacDowell Colony is an artists' colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States, founded in 1907 by Marian MacDowell, pianist and wife of composer Edward MacDowell.

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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.

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Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston (born Maxine Ting Ting Hong;Huntley, E. D. (2001). Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion. p. 1. October 27, 1940) is a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962.

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Melvyn R. Leventhal

Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal (born March 18, 1943)Evelyn C. White, Alice Walker: A Life (2004), p. 135-137.

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Meridian (novel)

Meridian is a 1976 novel by American author Alice Walker.

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Miscegenation

Miscegenation (from the Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, or procreation.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.

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Ms. (magazine)

Ms. is an American liberal feminist magazine co-founded by second-wave feminists and sociopolitical activists Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes.

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Muriel Rukeyser

Muriel Rukeyser (December 15, 1913 – February 12, 1980) was an American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism.

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NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Book Award for Fiction

The National Book Award for Fiction is one of four annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens.

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National Coalition of 100 Black Women

The National Coalition of 100 Black Women (NCBW) is a non-profit volunteer organization for American women.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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National Post

The National Post is a conservative Canadian English-language newspaper.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Non-governmental organization

Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.

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O. Henry Award

The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit.

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Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.

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Patriarchy

Patriarchy is a social system in which males hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property.

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Poetry Foundation

The Poetry Foundation is a Chicago-based American foundation created to promote poetry in the wider culture.

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Possessing the Secret of Joy

Possessing the Secret of Joy is a 1992 novel by Alice Walker.

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Pratibha Parmar

Pratibha Parmar is a British filmmaker, who has worked as a director, producer and writer.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Putnam County, Georgia

Putnam County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard shares transformative ideas across the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

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Rebecca Walker

Rebecca Walker (born November 17, 1969 as Rebecca Leventhal) is an American writer, feminist, and activist.

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Reptilians

Reptilians (also called reptoids, lizard people, reptiloids, saurians, Draconians) are purported reptilian humanoids that play a prominent role in fantasy, science fiction, ufology, and conspiracy theories.

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Robert L. Allen

Robert Lee Allen (born May 29, 1942) is an activist, writer, and Adjunct Professor of African-American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Sarah Lawrence College

Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States.

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Scholarship

A scholarship is an award of financial aid for a student to further their education.

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Sexism

Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender.

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Shapeshifting

In mythology, folklore and speculative fiction, shapeshifting is the ability of a being or creature to completely transform its physical form or shape.

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Sharecropping

Sharecropping is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.

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Spelman College

Spelman College is a four-year liberal arts women's college located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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Spirituality

Traditionally, spirituality refers to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape of man," oriented at "the image of God" as exemplified by the founders and sacred texts of the religions of the world.

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Staughton Lynd

Staughton Craig Lynd (born November 22, 1929) is an American conscientious objector, Quaker,Alice and Staughton Lynd, Living Inside Our Hope: A Steadfast Radical's Thoughts on Rebuilding the Movement, Cornell University Press, 1997, p. 44.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv (תֵּל אָבִיב,, تل أَبيب) is the second most populous city in Israel – after Jerusalem – and the most populous city in the conurbation of Gush Dan, Israel's largest metropolitan area.

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Terrorism

Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a financial, political, religious or ideological aim.

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Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams (born 8 September 1955), is an American author, conservationist, and activist.

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The California Museum

The California Museum, formerly The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts – home of the California Hall of Fame – is housed in the State Archives Building in Sacramento, one block from the State Capitol.

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The Color Purple

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.

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The Color Purple (film)

The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Menno Meyjes, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker.

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The Color Purple (musical)

The Color Purple is a musical with a book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Stephen Bray, Brenda Russell, and Allee Willis.

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The Jerusalem Post

The Jerusalem Post is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post.

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The Temple of My Familiar

The Temple of My Familiar is a 1989 novel by Alice Walker.

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The Third Life of Grange Copeland

The Third Life of Grange Copeland is the debut novel of American author Alice Walker.

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Third-wave feminism

Third-wave feminism is an iteration of the feminist movement that began in the early 1990s United States and continued until the fourth wave began around 2012.

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Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually.

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Tougaloo College

Tougaloo College is a private, co-educational, historically black, liberal arts institution of higher education founded in 1869, in Madison County, north of Jackson, Mississippi, United States.

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Tracy Chapman

Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, known for her hits "Fast Car" and "Give Me One Reason", along with other singles "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Crossroads", "New Beginning" and "Telling Stories".

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Transcendental Meditation

Transcendental Meditation (TM) refers to a specific form of silent mantra meditation called the Transcendental Meditation technique, and less commonly to the organizations that constitute the Transcendental Meditation movement.

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University of Massachusetts Boston

The University of Massachusetts Boston, also known as UMass Boston, is an urban public research university and the third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system.

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Valedictorian

Valedictorian is an academic title of success used in the United States, Canada, Central America, and the Philippines for the student who delivers the closing or farewell statement at a graduation ceremony (called a valediction).

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W. W. Norton & Company

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Warrior Marks

Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women is a 1993 book by Alice Walker with Pratibha Parmar, who made an award-winning documentary of the same name.

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White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.

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Whoopi Goldberg

Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actress, comedian, author, and television host.

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Womanism

Womanism is a social theory based on the discovery of the limitations of the second-wave feminism movement in regards to the history and experiences of black women, and other women of marginalized groups.

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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an influential author of African-American literature and anthropologist, who portrayed racial struggles in the early 20th century American South, and published research on Haitian voodoo.

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References

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