
For Colored Girls, 1977
Benny Andrews
Oil on canvas with painted fabric collage
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
© 2021 Estate of Benny Andrews/licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, Courtesy Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
Watch: somebody/anybody sing a black girl's song – 1 minute, 6 seconds
In the choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” playwright and poet Ntozake Shange uses poetry, song, and movement to tell the stories of survival of seven women of color.
Watch a scene titled “somebody/anybody sing a black girl's song" from the 2019 revival at New York's Public Theater.