As the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Color Purple,” Alice Walker is no stranger to stories that challenge audiences with the truth. Next week, she’ll come to Sonoma for a screening event with ...

'The Color Purple' author Alice Walker is opening up about the importance of seeing Celie and Shug's romance on screen in the new film. Steven Spielberg's 1985 feature adaptation of 'The Color Purple' ...

Where do you stand on the 1985 film version of “The Color Purple,” which was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, but won none? Some feel it wasn’t Steven Spielberg’s story to tell. Others marvel at how a ...

An American novel classic has made its way its hometown stage. For the first time since the book was released in 1982 and its film adaptation in 1985, “The Color Purple” premiered as a musical ...

A literary landmark, Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Color Purple” returned this week in a new film version inspired by Broadway’s musicalized adaptation that starred Fantasia ...

Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks are among the cast for the new movie, adapted from the Tony-winning stage musical. Both the first movie and the stage musical are tough acts to ...

Inside a clear case on Level 3 of Emory University’s Woodruff Library, is a dark green spiral notebook, its innards crammed with small, flowing handwriting. The thoughts on those pages birthed a ...

Fantasia Barrino in 'The Color Purple' Courtesy of Warner Bros. Alice Walker started the phenomenon with her Pulitzer-winning 1982 book, and three years later Steven Spielberg turned it into a movie ...

On June 3, Alice Walker heads to Sonoma for a screening event with documentarian Pratibha Parmar that offers films focused on race, feminism and identity. Hosted by the Sonoma International Film ...

The new musical adaptation of Alice Walker's book explores the romance between Shug and Celie, unlike Steven Spielberg's original 1985 film, which only featured a chaste kiss between the characters.

Director Blitz Bazawule’s fresh-eyed remake synthesizes elements from both the Broadway show — where Fantasia Barrino played Celie 15 years earlier — and Steven Spielberg’s iconic 1985 film. Now, ...