Alice Walker's Blog, page 35

Sons of Mothers: Laymon, Moore, and Tubbs

It is a delightful reality of Life that something amazing is happening all the time. This time is no different.  Some of us have asked ourselves: What about our sons and grandsons raised by women?  In three recent books by the awaited offspring we have a remarkable and inspiring answer.  The books are Heavy: An read more »

Abby Ginsberg Presents Barbara Lee, Beautifully.

In Speak Truth to Power the new film about Congresswoman Barbara Lee, filmmaker Abby Ginsberg has offered us that bright flower of determination that we thought had, maybe, started to wilt.  The black woman, remembering her mother, especially, but also her father and innumerable ancestors, who make up the murmuring chorus some of us hear when read more »

Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem

Photograph: The New York Times Somehow, reading Dapper Dan, Made in Harlem, listening to it actually, I didn’t expect Dapper Dan to be so handsome. I’m happy he is.  But what’s so exciting to relate is that his book about his life is extraordinary and reminds me why I’ve always had a soft spot for read more »

Bob Moses 1935-2021

Bob Moses 1932-2021 ©2021 by Alice Walker   Painting credit: Tiffany Hamelin Cabrera of PeaceOfMyArt Studio   Dear Bob Moses, Before I went to Mississippi I had heard You were there But soon you left. Your name was Moses And the people became Too used to following you. You were wise enough Not to want read more »

Pray Tell Has Only Six Months To Live

PRAY TELL HAS ONLY SIX MONTHS TO LIVE ©2021 by Alice Walker I learned last night That Pray Tell Has only six months To live. In him I see my brothers And comrades In arms:  Ivory, our hairdresser, with whom My well-raised daughter Spent afternoons Sprawled reading and Telling jokes Across his death bed, And read more »

CONCRETE COWBOY Netflix (Google for details)

  CONCRETE COWBOY (Google for details) ©2021 by Alice Walker We had no word for the strange animal we got from the white man-the horse. So we called it sunka waken, “holy dog.” For bringing us the horse we could almost forgive you for bringing us whiskey.  Horses make a landscape look more beautiful. ~ Lame read more »

CODEPINK: Tell President Biden to lift the embargo on Cuba!

What’s behind the Cuba protests? The cruel Trump sanctions & U.S. blockade! Tell President Biden to lift them now! ACT NOW Dear Alice, From sanctions against Iran and Venezuela to the blockades of Gaza and Yemen, we know well how devastating economic warfare can be. This is why we care about what’s happening in Cuba read more »

My Letter Re: Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo

Robert Allen, Rosario Murillo, Unidentified Kind Person, Alice Walker, Daniel Ortega. Mid-Eighties. MY LETTER RE: DANIEL ORTEGA AND ROSARIO MURILLO I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 – 1968)   ALICE WALKER   To Whom It May Concern   Why am I read more »

High on the Hog, Braiding Sweetgrass, The Moor’s Account

Stephen Satterfield High On The Hog is one of many distinct gifts to our growth and enlightenment during this peculiar time of angst and confusion.  I watched it with a niece whose father, my brother Bill, left the Jim Crow South for a better life in Boston years before she was born.  Watching it, she read more »

Julian Assange’s Global Family Represented in Oakland