Indie filmmaker Tyler Perry has spun an unlikely career out of catering to underserved black audiences by giving them excruciatingly unwatchable minstrel-show movies -- often featuring himself in an ...

Perry was hesitant when he was approached to do the movie For Colored Girls. The movie was adapted from a popular literature piece by artist Ntozake Shange, which had several Play and television ...

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LOS ANGELES — “For Colored Girls” was a big winner at the NAACP Image Awards, taking the best picture, director and supporting-actress prizes. Based on the award-winning play “for colored girls who ...

The ladies listen as Verda Davenport (Lady in Brown) shares her story in Actors Theatre of Little Rock’s rendition of Ntozake Shange’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow ...