Pearl Cleage

writefusion
Feb 22, 2017
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Day #22 Black History / African Heritage Month: Pearl Cleage, award-winning author, playwright, activist, educator, and feminist. Her novel, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day was Oprah's Book Club selection in 1998. Cleage's works explore issues of sexism, racism, struggle, restoration, and mysticism in black culture. Cleage's notable works include I Wish I Had a Red Dress, Baby Brother's Blues, Just Wanna Testify, Flyin' West (play), Blues for an Alabama Sky (play & my fav), and Mad at Miles: A Black Woman's Guide to the Truth. Cleage resides in Atlanta (regarded as an icon there), and many of her story settings center in Atlanta neighborhoods; she teaches drama at Spelman College. Cleage received the Theatre Legend Award frm Atlanta Black Theatre Festival in 2013. I was honored to plan an event that celebrated Cleage's work, particularly the release of her play Flyin' West in 1995, while a journalist at The Atlanta Tribune. The event also welcomed Cleage as a guest columnist wth The Atlanta Tribune. Ms. Cleage is humble, heroic, highly talented & treasured, and hella epic ...