The audiobook for Sing A Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Works of Ntozake Shange, published by Legacy Lit, Hachette Book Group and released in September 2023, features a stellar list of narrators. Voices on the audiobook include celebrated talents such as Alfre Woodard, D. Woods, Regina Taylor, Lynn Whitfield, Okwui Okpokwasili, Imani Perry, Robin Miles and Tarana Burke. Shange’s sister, award-winning playwright and author, Ifa Bayeza, as well as Shange’s daughter, Savannah Shange, award-winning author and professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, have also lent their voices to this remarkable collection of never-before-published works by Shange. The audiobook of Sing A Black Girl’s Song is available wherever audiobooks are sold.
Sing a Black Girl’s Song is a new posthumous collection of Shange’s unpublished poems, essays and plays from throughout the life of the seminal Black feminist writer. Here we meet the young Shange, learn the moments that inspired for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf…, travel with an eclectic family of musicians, sit on “The Couch” opposite Shange’s therapist and discover plays written after for colored girls’ international success. Every fan of Ntozake Shange and her life’s work will want to own their copy of this remarkable volume and its exceptional audiobook.