Poet Ntozake Shange

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Ntozake Shange

Living place: Trenton

Birthday: 18-10-1948 (76 years old)

Population of US 1948: 146,631,302

Global rank: #55184

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Who is Poet Ntozake Shange?
African-American poet, novelist, and playwright who became famous with a 1975 poetic play titled Opposite the Color of a Girl Who Would Consider Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enuf. She is also known for her 1985 novel, Betsey Brown.
She received the prestigious Obie Award for her play of poetry, for colored girls Who consider Suicide When the rainbow is enuf.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She attended Barnard College and the University of Southern California.

Family life info

She was married briefly during her late teens; Divorced then she led her to attempt suicide.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Ntozake Shange?
She wrote a 1980 adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's famous play, Mother Courage and Her Children.

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When was Poet Ntozake Shange born?
Ntozake Shange birthday 18-10-1948 (at the age of 76).
Where is Poet Ntozake Shange's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Ntozake Shange was born in Trenton, New Jersey- United States. is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Libra, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Ntozake Shange's global rank is 55184 and whose rank is 248 in list of famous Poet. Population of US in 1948 is about 146,631,302 persons.
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Events in 1948 and 18-10

Events in US in the birth year of Ntozake Shange

  • Truman ends racial segregation in the U.S. military.
  • Margaret Sanger founds the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
  • Alfred Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.

Birthday Ntozake Shange (18-10) in history

  • Day 18-10 year 1685: King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes.
  • Day 18-10 year 1767: The Mason-Dixon Line, which divides the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, has been reached.
  • Day 18-10 year 1867: The United States took possession of Alaska from Russia.
  • Day 18-10 year 1912: The first Balkan War broke out.
  • Day 18-10 year 1931: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange, N.J., at age 84.
  • Day 18-10 year 1968: The U.S. Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.
  • Day 18-10 year 2011: Gilad Shalit, a 25-year-old Israeli soldier, is released after being held for more than five years by Hamas. He is exchanged for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. Shalit had been held in Gaza since Palestinian militants kidnapped him in 2006.
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