The movie is based on Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." Unlike the original play which featured only 7 women known by colors ...

American Sign Language plays a key creative role in for colored girls... The show features Alexandria Wailes (Lady in Purple), an actor and dancer who is deaf and has been an advocate for ...

Structurally, For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, collectively called a 'choreopoem.' Shange's poetry expresses the many struggles and obstacles that African-American women face throughout ...

Actress Melissa Kiplagat and Colored Girls play director Cheryl Williams during an interview at KTN News studios along Mombasa Road. [Courtesy] A 48-year-old play, known for powerfully describing ...