Evelyn White

3 weeks ago | halifaxexaminer.ca | Evelyn White

Skip to content Home » Black Nova Scotia » ‘Collective effort to not let her be erased’: Exhibit honours first documented Black woman artist in Canada “From Africville: The Paintings of Edith MacDonald-Brown (1886-1954)” is on display at the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery until Saturday.

1 month ago | halifaxexaminer.ca | Evelyn White

Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world. In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building.

Jan 18, 2025 | sfbaytimes.com | Evelyn White

By Evelyn C. White–As the official biographer of Alice Walker, I spent nearly a decade researching the art and activism of a writer whose signature work, The Color Purple (1982), has sold more than five million copies and been translated into more than thirty languages. Moreover, The Color Purple has been adapted for two Hollywood movies and multiple stage productions in the U.S. and abroad.

Jan 18, 2025 | sfbaytimes.com | Evelyn White

By Evelyn White–January 28, 2025, will mark the 65th anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s death. Here’s an excerpt from my book, Alice Walker: A Life (2004) that recounts Alice’s reclamation of the author that she, now 80, celebrates as a literary foremother. “Today, visitors to the Garden of the Heavenly Rest will find a well-manicured cemetery … . But on the sweltering day when Alice first visited the site, it was choked with waist-high brambles and weeds.

Nov 5, 2024 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Evelyn White

Today when the airwaves will be awash with political pundits and prognosticators, let us consider the poets. “When Black and White See Eye to Eye” by Maxine Tynes (1949-2011), from Save The World For Me  (1991, Pottersfield Press). … Good times go round and roundBut when they don’t Some push, some shoutSome fight; all stand and frown.