Sunday, February 22, 2009
AALBC Webpage
Check out this Alice Walker page from the website African American Literature Book Club (AALBC): http://aalbc.com/authors/alice.htm
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Alice Walker links and bio
This webpage about Alice Walker includes a biography and tons of internet links: http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/alicew/
Woman of the Month: February
Our woman of the month is Alice Walker! She was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her epistolary novel The Color Purple in 1983. Throughout the month, we will post links, pictures, articles, fun facts, etc. relating to her. Sorry for the delay!
Globalization and women's advancement
Check out this cool article about globalization and women's rights! http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,605813,00.html
Labels:
Advocacy,
Feminist/Girl Power,
International
Monday, February 9, 2009
First woman to swim across Atlantic
Read all about 56-year-old Jennifer Figge who becames the first woman to swim across the Atlantic Ocean! She left the Cape Verde Islands off Africa on January 12 and arrived at Chacachacare Island, in Trinidad on February 5, "swimming about 2,100 miles (3,380 kilometers)." http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-atlanticswim020809&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
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