American Masters Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Premieres nationally Friday, February 7, 9-10:30 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) in honor of Walker’s 70th birthday and Black History Month
Original Film Interviewees (in order of appearance)
Fred Walker, Walker’s brother (now deceased)
Alice Walker
Evelyn C. White, author, Alice Walker: A Life; Walker’s official biographer;
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, scholar, activist; a former college friend at Spelman College
Howard Zinn, historian, playwright, activist; Walker’s first professor at Spelman College and a key influence on her intellectual and political education (now deceased)
Melvyn R. Leventhal, Walker’s former husband; attorney
Sonia Sanchez, poet, activist; one of Walker’s contemporaries
Sapphire, writer; influenced by Walker
Gloria Steinem, writer, feminist organizer, former editor of Ms. magazine; Walker’s lifelong friend
Jewelle Gomez, writer; influenced by Walker
Robert Allen, writer, former editor of The Black Scholar; Walker’s former partner
Jennifer DeVere Brody, professor, The Clayman Institute for Gender Research – Stanford
University
Quincy Jones, producer, The Color Purple film (1985)
Steven Spielberg, director, The Color Purple film (1985)
Peter Guber, executive producer, The Color Purple film (1985)
Danny Glover, actor, activist; played the male lead in The Color Purple film (1985)
Arisika Razak, California Institute of Integral Studies; teaches Walker’s writings
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Black feminist scholar
Jack Kornfield, Buddhist teacher; Walker’s friend
Angela Y. Davis, educator; activist
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