Ntozake Shange, who wrote the influential play 'For Colored Girls,' has died at 70

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"Ntozake Shange, who wrote the influential play 'For Colored Girls,' has died at 70"
by Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press Published 11:59 a.m. ET Oct. 28, 2018

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NEW YORK – Playwright, poet and author Ntozake Shange, whose most acclaimed theater piece is the 1975 Tony Award-nominated play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf," died Saturday, according to her daughter. She was 70.

Shange's "For Colored Girls" describes the racism, sexism, violence and rape experienced by seven black women. It has been influential to generations of progressive thinkers, from #MeToo architect Tarana Burke to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. After learning of Shange's death, Nottage called her "our warrior poet/dramatist."