In the opening scene of the first film biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, the activist says people have always had a problem with her. "They had a problem with my disinterest ...

Actor Danny Glover speaks about Alice Walker's work in the context of activism. Howard Zinn on Alice Walker, His Former Student Howard Zinn compares his former student, Alice Walker, to Zora Neale ...

A birthday message for Alice Walker was written on the windows of the Georgia Writers Museum. Hard Times Require Furious Dancing—one of Alice Walker’s more than 40 books—is perhaps the most apropos ...

The front yard of Alice Walker's house in the Berkeley hills is a wonderland. Buddhist statues, yellow roses and trees lead to a virtual gateway to her front door: a spider web that's been intact so ...

Beauty in Truth, Pratibha Parmar’s documentary about the life and work of the author Alice Walker, is a deeply moving film that deserved the standing ovations at its premiere screenings this spring.

Walker's memoir of the personal dilemmas and controversy surrounding release of the film based on The Color Purple. (Jan.) In linking meditation to wandering, the distinguished and prolific Walker, ...

Legendary author, poet and activist Alice Walker joins us to discuss her newest book, “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way,” in which ...

Publication day is here for “Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker,” a book that has kept Alice Walker fans waiting for an “intimate glimpse into an important writer’s life.” ...

AMY GOODMAN: President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle visited the White House yesterday in a symbolic moment in the transition of power. Bush and Obama sat in the Oval Office with no aides ...

The San Diego Community College District has asked Alice Walker to speak at the investiture of the new chancellor, Carlos O. Cortez. Walker’s continuing popularity is not hard to explain. She won the ...

Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker, who were sharecroppers. When Alice Walker was eight years old, she ...