Alice Walker Lecture on Civil Rights Era

Today's free resource is a lecture by author Alice Walker who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her novel The Color Purple. She has written dozens of novels, poetry collections, and nonfiction books and in this talk she reads from one of her latest works We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For which is a collection of meditations and essays. In the lecture she talks about her days in the civil rights movement following Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the grieving process she had to go through after he was assassinated. Listen to some interesting stories from author Alice Walker. This talk is available on streaming audio and MP3 download from the Fourm Network.

We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For

Activism with Heart and Soul, Part Two: A Dialogue with Alice Walker

Speaking from the heart on a wide range of topics - poetry and writing, Mexico and the south, family and relationship, Buddhism and spiritual teachers, power and greed, politics and social change, death and transformation, and much more - Walker addresses these challenging times and how to live in balance. Her description of the beauty of solitude and having "hammock time" is captivating and reveals some of the source of her prolific creativity and personal integrity. This dialogue speaks to everyone concerned with the future of our society, our nation and our planet.

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Listen to a free sample of: Activism with Heart and Soul, Part One

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