Spring Hill and USA Welcome Award-Winning Playwright Ntozake Shange

Feb 26th, 2004

Mobile, Ala. - Spring Hill College and the University of South Alabama will welcome playwright and scholar Ntozake Shange to Mobile Thursday, March 11, for a lecture at the Laidlaw Performing Arts Auditorium on the campus of USA. The 7 p.m. presentation, "Sweet Breath of Life," is being funded through a grant by the Alabama Humanities Foundation and will be followed by a reception and book signing.

Shange is professor of African American studies and women’s studies at the University of Florida and is author of the award-winning play "For Colored Girls Who've Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf."The lecture, reception and book signing is free and open to the public. For more information or directions, call Dr. Martha Patterson, assistant professor of English at Spring Hill College, at 251-380-4653.