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Marita Golden (born April 28, 1950) [1] is an American novelist, nonfiction writer, professor, [2] and co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, a national organization that serves as a resource center for African-American writers.
Don’t Play in the Sun: One Woman’s Journey through the Color Complex. Marita Golden’s first memoir, Migrations of the Heart, followed the young American woman’s four-year sojourn in Africa, inspired by the Black Power movement.
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Marita Golden co-founded the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 1990 with Clyde McElvene. She is an acclaimed author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent novel, The Wide Circumference of Love, was a 2017 NAACP Image Award Nominee and a 2017 NPR Best Book.
Apr 20, 2004 · In a hard-hitting meditation on the role that color plays among African Americans and in wider society, Marita Golden dares to put herself on the line, expressing her fears and rage about how she has navigated through the color complex.
Mar 27, 2020 · A prolific author, novelist, writer, activist, and advocate, Marita Golden is a literary genius whose words and work continue to inspire across generations. Marita Golden’s interview is a part of our March theme, “Sankofa: Honoring Our Black Feminist Pioneers.”
May 16, 2006 · In her long-awaited fifth novel, acclaimed writer Marita Golden takes another unflinching look into the face of family, race, love and identity. For twelve years Carson Blake inhabited a world of his own creation.
Mar 25, 2022 · As a literary activist, she has written books and edited anthologies which offer guidance and critical analyses of issues such as colorism, raising Black sons, the criminal justice system, single parenting, health inequities, and the transformative power of reading and writing.
