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Sherley Anne Williams (August 25, 1944 – July 6, 1999) was an American poet, novelist, professor, vocalist, jazz poet, playwright and social critic. Many of her works tell stories about her life in the African-American community.
Working Cotton is a 1992 Caldecott Honor Book, [1] Coretta Scott King Honor Book for Illustration, [2] and an ALA Notable Book.It was written by Sherley Anne Williams and illustrated by Carole Byard.
Dessa Rose is a musical based on the novel of the same name by Sherley Anne Williams with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty.It tells the story of a young black woman and a young white woman and their journey to acceptance in 1847 in the ante-bellum South, as they tell their story to their grandchildren.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
A man has been arrested over the leak of graphic crime scene photos taken from the wooded trail where teenage best friends Libby German and Abby Williams were brutally murdered.. In what marks the ...
The white man assuming the voice of an African-American man enraged the black community. In Dessa Rose, the author Sherley Anne Williams, a black woman, takes the voice of a white woman. Dessa Rose alternatively defines freedom and agency from a female character's perspective, using distinct literary techniques. Williams broke free of ...
Graphic photos of the scene where teenage best friends Libby German and Abby Williams were found brutally murdered in February 2017 were leaked by someone associated with Richard Allen’s defence ...
Valley of the Shadow of Death: 23 April 1855 Roger Fenton Sevastopol, Crimea Wet collodion negative Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3]