TRIBUTE

Remembering those whose words live on

Ntozake Shange, the poet and playwright who died on October 27, 2018, at the age of seventy, appeared on the cover of our May/June 1993 issue, shortly after her poetry collection The Love Space Demands: a continuous saga, 1991 was adapted for the stage. But it was her choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” which opened on Broadway in 1976, that brought her fame. “My dream is to have a nation fully of black people who are living up to their greatest potentials and offered the opportunities to aspire to them,” she told Edward K. Brown II in our interview. “That’s my dream.”