Essence Magazine:
By Felice León ·Updated October 17, 2023
The Color Purple is an American masterpiece.
“This story lives forever,” says Taraji P. Henson, quite emphatically. “It’s like Shakespeare. It’s never going to go away.” Henson, who plays Shug Avery in the 2023 film “reimagining” of the classic tale, reflects on the gravity of this newest iteration and of all the productions that have been based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel.
Walker first published The
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