Barbara Neal Davis (1949-07-19) July 19, 1949 (age 74)
Occupation
Playwright
journalist
librettist
novelist
poet
screenwriter
Language
English
Notable works
My Confederate Kinfolk Playing the Changes All the Renegade Ghosts Rise
Website
www.thulanidavis.com
Thulani Davis (born July 19, 1949[1]) is an American playwright, journalist, librettist, novelist, poet, and screenwriter. She is a graduate of Barnard College and attended graduate school at both the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University.[2]
In 1992, Davis received a Grammy Award for her album notes on Aretha Franklin's Queen Of Soul – The Atlantic Recordings, becoming the first female recipient of this award.[3][4] She has collaborated with her cousin, composer Anthony Davis, writing the librettos to two operas.
Davis wrote for the Village Voice for more than a decade,[2][3] including the obituary for fellow poet and Barnard alumna June Jordan.[5] She was a mentor to a young Greg Tate, before he emerged as an influential journalist and cultural critic.[6] Thulani Davis is a contemporary of and collaborator with Ntozake Shange.[7][8]
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^ ab"Thulani Davis, a voice of the written word". African American Registry. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
^ ab"Thulani Davis". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
^"The GRAMMYs' Trailblazing Women, Part One". Retrieved 12 May 2014.
^Davis, Thulani (June 25, 2002). "June Jordan, 1936–2002". Village Voice. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
^Risen, Clay (December 8, 2021). "Greg Tate, Influential Critic of Black Culture, Dies at 64". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
^"Thulani Davis by Stephanie Fleischmann". BOMB Magazine. Fall 1990. Archived from the original on 2014-05-12.
^"Black music / Ntozake Shange and Thulani Davis ; interviewed by Joan Thornell". Pacifica Radio Archives. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
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