The World Has Changed (51 page)

 

Justine Toms
and
Michael Toms
are with the co-founders and co-presidents of New Dimensions.

 

Alice Walker
is a native of Putnam County, Georgia, and was educated at Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of more than twenty-six books spanning the genres of the novel, poetry, and the essay. Walker’s books have sold more than fifteen million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twelve languages. She is one of the leading figures in what scholars term the renaissance in black women’s writing of the 1970s. Walker is the author of
The Color Purple
, which received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for fiction and has been adapted for film and the stage, among other novels. Through her anthology
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
, she is chiefly responsible for the revival of scholarly interest in the life and writings of Zora Neale Hurston. Walker is the author of several collections of essays, including the landmark collection
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose.
This collection contains her definition of womanism, which has catalyzed new research and theoretical models in such fields as literary studies, women’s studies, and theological studies. Through
Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Binding of Women
, a companion volume to the eponymous documentary produced and directed by Pratibha Parmar, Walker has raised international awareness of the practice of female genital mutilation. Her activism also includes support of several social justice movements, including the civil rights movement, the women’s movement, and, most recently, opposition to the wars in
Afghanistan and freedom for the Palestinians. The author of several prize-winning collections of poetry, Walker is the author of the forthcoming
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: A Year of Poems.
In 2008, she launched
www.alicewalkersgardens.com
, her official Web site where she posts regular contributions to her blog. Walker appointed Emory University as the custodian of her archive, which opened to researchers and to the public in April 2009.

 

Evelyn C. White
attended Harvard University, the Columbia University School of Journalism, and Wellesley College. She is the author of
Alice Walker: A Life
and the editor of
The Black Woman’s Health Book.
Her articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in
Smithsonian, Essence, Ms.
, the
Wall Street Journal
, the
San Francisco Chronicle
, and the
Washington Post.

 

Howard Zinn
(1922–2010) was a historian, political scientist, social critic, activist, and playwright. He is best known as the author of the bestselling
A People’s History of the United States
, which has been adapted into a two-hour documentary that aired on the History Channel in December 2009. Zinn was the author of twenty books and a professor in the department of political science at Boston University.

Abunimah, Ali

Akhmatova, Anna

Ahmadi, Elechi

“Albert Camus: The Development of His Philosophical Position as Reflected in His Novels and Plays,”

“Alice” (Harper)

Ali, Muhammad

Allende, Isabel

Allen, Robert L.

“Am I Blue,”

Armah, Ayi Kwei

Atisha

Attaway, William

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
(Gaines)

The Awakening
(Chopin)

Awakening Compassion
(Chödrön)

Baines, Bobby “Tug,”

“Ballad of the Brown Girl,”

Ballard, Audrey

Barks, Coleman

Bash_, Matsuo

Batista, Fulgencio

Bearden, Romare

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
(Armah)

“Beauty,”

Belafonte, Harry

“Be Nobody’s Darling,”

The Best American Essays of the Century
(Oates, ed.)

The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers
(Hughes, ed.)

Bible

Blackburn, Sarah

Black Is . . . Black Ain’t
(Riggs)

“A Black Man Talks of Reaping” (Bontemps)

Black Women Novelists
(Christian)

The Bluest Eye
(Morrison)

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Bond, Julian

Bontemps, Arna

The Book of Salt
(Truong)

Booth, Susan

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Bring, Ellen

Brontë, Charlotte

Brontë, Emily

Buddhism for Beginners
(Kornfield)

“Burial,”

Byrd, Rudolph P.

Caldicott, Helen

Calloway, Tallulah (Nettie)

Camus, Albert

Cane
(Toomer)

Canterbury Tales
(Chaucer)

Castro, Fidel

Catullus

Chaney, James

Chekhawa, Geshe

“Chic Freedom’s Reflection,”

“The Child Who Favored Daughter,”

Chödrön, Pema

Chopin, Kate

Christian, Barbara

“The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?”

Cleaver, Kathleen

Clinton, Bill

The Color Purple
(novel)

The Color Purple
(film)

The Color Purple
(musical)

The Concubine
(Ahmadi)

Cooper, Jane

Corea, Gene

Cosby, Bill

cummings, e.e.

Dalai Lama

Dangarembga, Tsitsi

Darden, Carole

Davenport, Kiana

Davis, Angela de Beauvoir, Simone

DeMoss, David

Deng Ming-Dao

“Diary of an African Nun,”

Dickens, Charles

Dickinson, Emily

Diop, Aminata

Diving into the Wreck
(Rich)

“Dominance and Control” (Corea)

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Douglass, Frederick

Dreifus, Claudia

Duvauchelle, Zelie Kuliaikanu’u

Du Bois, W.E.B.

Edelman, Marian Wright

Edwards, Audrey

Ellison, Ralph

The Essential Rumi
(Barks, trans.)

Estés, Clarissa Pinkola

Eva Luna
(Allende)

Evers, Medgar

“Everyday Use,”

Everything That Rises Must Converge
(O’Connor)

Faulkner, William

Ferris, William R.

“Flowers,”

Fonda, Jane

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
(Shange)

“For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties,”

Franklin, Shirley Clarke

Freedman, Marcia

French, Marilyn

From a Land Where Other People Live
(Lorde)

From a Native Daughter
(Trask)

Gaines, Ernest J.

Galloway, George

Giddings, Paula

“The Girl Who Died #2,”

Glover, Danny

The Gnostic Gospels
(Pagels)

Goddesses in Everywoman
(Bolen)

Gogol, Nikolai

Goldberg, Whoopi

Goldsmith, Judith

Gone with the Wind
(Mitchell)

Goodall, Jane

Goodman, Amy

Goodman, Andrew

Gorky, Maxim

Graves, Robert

The Great Cosmic Mother
(Sjoo and Mor)

Grossman, David

Grosvenor, Vertamae

Guber, Peter

Guevara, Che

Guy-Sheftall, Beverly

Hairston, Loyle

Hansberry, Lorraine

Hardy, Thomas

Harlem Renaissance
(Huggins)

Harper, Frances Watkins

Harper, Michael S.

Haydn, Hiram

Head, Bessie

The Healing Wisdom of Africa
(Somé)

Hemingway, Ernest

Henry, Dr. Morriss M.

Heston, Charlton

Holliday, Billie

The House of the Spirits
(Allende)

Hoy, Jody

Hughes, Langston

Huggins, Nathan

Hugo, Victor

Hurston, Zora Neale

“If There Was Any Justice,”

Infants of the Spring
(Thurman)

“In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens,”

Issa, Kobayashi

Jackson, Jesse

Jane Eyre
(Brontë)

Jefferson, Margo

Jeffers, Trellie

Jesus

“Johann,”

Jones, Quincy

Jordan, June

Jung, Carl

King, B.B.

King, Coretta Scott

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Kingston, Maxine Hong

Kornfield, Jack

The Kreutzer Sonata
(Tolstoy)

LaChanze

Langston Hughes: American Poet
,

Larsen, Nella

“The Last Toast” (Akhmatova)

Laye, Camara

Leaving India
(Hajratwala)

Lessing, Doris

Leventhal, Melvyn R.

Leventhal, Miriam

Lewis, John

Lief, Judith

Lightfoot-Klein, Hanny

Li Po

Lives of Courage
(Russell)

“Looking for Zora,”

Lorde, Audre

Lumumba, Patrice

Lykes, Bill

Lykes, Peggy

Lynd, Helen

Lynd, Staughton

Makdisi, Saree

Malcolm X

Mandela, Nelson

Mandela, Winnie

Mander, Jerry

Man Does, Woman Is
(Graves)

“The Man in the Yellow Terry,”

Marcus, Greil

Marley, Bob

Márquez, Gabriel García

Marshall, Paule

Maru
(Head)

Maynard, Nana

McCall, Monica

McCloud, Shiloh

Meade, Michael

Mistress of Spices
(Divakaruni)

Morgan, Sally

Morrison, Toni

Moses

Moses, Bob

The Motherpeace Tarot
(Vogel and Noble)

My Place
(Morgan)

“My Teacher,”

Nag Hammadi

Nappy Edges
(Shange)

Nathans, R.

Nelson, Kate

Nervous Conditions
(Dangarembga)

The New Astrology
(White)

Nhat Hanh, Thich

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nixon, Richard

“Nothing Is Right,”

Oates, Joyce Carol

Obama, Barack H.

O’Brien, John

O’Connor, Flannery

Of Water and the Spirit
(Somé)

“O Landscape of My Birth,”

“The Old Warrior Terror,”

Oliver Twist
(Dickens)

Olsen, Tillie

One Hundred Years of Solitude
(Márquez)

“Only Justice Can Stop a Curse,”

“On Stripping Bark from Myself,”

Ortega, Daniel

Ortega, Rosario

Osgood, Charlotte Mason

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
(Steinem)

Ovid

Pagels, Elaine

Parks, Rosa

Parmar, Pratibha

A Path with Heart
(Kornfield)

A People’s History of the United States
(Zinn)

Petry, Ann

Piercy, Marge

Plato

Playing in the Dark
(Morrison)

Poole, May

Prisoners of Ritual
(Lightfoot-Klein)

Proust, Marcel

p’tek, Okot

Quicksand
(Larsen)

The Radiance of the King
(Laye)

Rainey, Ma

Randall, Margaret

Reagan, Ronald

Reagon, Bernice Johnson

The Red Book
(Jung)

Reed, Ishmael

“Reflections on Turning the Wheel,”

Remembrance of Things Past
(Proust)

Resurrection
(Tolstoy)

“The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff,”

“Revolutionary Petunias,”

Reynolds, Birda

Rich, Adrienne

Richards, Amy

Riggs, Marlon