Word Weavers: Alice Walker

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Society & Culture, Education, History

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Alice Walker (1944-present) is novelist, poet and essayist, best known for her novel The Color Purple, published in 1982, which won the Pulitzer Prize and made Alice the first Black woman to win the prize for fiction. Walker is also credited with coining the term Womanist in her 1983 collection of essays In Search of our Mother’s Gardens.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.0	I'm Soledad O'Brien, and on my new true crime podcast, Murder on the Toe Path, I'm taking you back to 1964 to the cold case of artist Mary Pinch O'Meyer.
0:16.7	She had been shot twice in the head and in the back.
0:20.1	It turns out, Mary was connected to a very powerful man.
0:25.3	I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression.
0:29.7	John F. Kennedy.
0:31.6	Listen to Murder on the Toothatch with Soledad O'Brien on the Iheartio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:43.8	My husband has a secret son from a past partner.
0:46.6	Hold up Sam.
0:47.2	How do we know?
0:47.7	Have we done the DNA test?
0:48.9	Well, John, luckily, it's mother.
0:50.3	May I have a DNA test week on the OK Storytime podcast?
0:53.3	So we'll find out soon. And this wife writes, my husband received a Facebook test week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out
0:54.2	soon, and this wife writes, my husband
0:55.8	received a Facebook message from a woman saying that
0:57.9	he is the father of a five-year-old.
0:59.7	At first, he didn't remember her, but then he realized
1:02.0	they had a one-night stand right before
1:04.0	we started dating. Wait, but do we have proof
1:06.0	he's the dad? To hear the explosive finale,
1:08.2	listen to the O Storytime podcast on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
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