Edna Morton for Elcha studio

**Anthony Barboza ~** Portrait of actress Edna Morton, in costume, early 20th century (studio Elcha, NY) | src getty images

Edna Morton (April 2, 1894 – July 31, 1980) was an American actress who was in films in the 1920s. She starred in mainly race films most of them produced by Reol Productions. Her most notable films being Spitfire (1922), Easy Money (1922), and The Call of His People (1921). She was also in a film by Oscar Micheaux called A Son of Satan (1924). She is known to have been in ten films in total. She was referred to as “the colored Mary Pickford”. (text retrieved from wikipedia entry)

**Anthony Barboza ~** Portrait of actress Edna Morton, in costume, early 20th century (studio Elcha, NY stamp on bottom right)

Ntozake Shange · portraits

**Anthony Barboza** (b. 1944) ~ Ntozake Shange – Poet, 1977. *The Black Borders* | src Keith de Lellis gallery

Shange was born in New Jersey in 1948 and named Paulette Williams. Her father, Paul T. Williams, was a surgeon, and her mother, Eloise, was an educator and psychiatric social worker. […] In 1971, she changed her name from Paulette Williams to Ntozake Shange, which is Zulu for “she who comes with her own things and walks like a lion” […] / quoted from The New Yorker

**Sylvia Plachy ~** Ntozake Shange in 1976 | src The New Yorker

Shange was perhaps most famous for her play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1975). A unique blend of poetry, music, dance and drama called a “choreopoem”. […] [The Poetry Foundation]