For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home One World Helen Elaine Lee paints a

Helen Elaine Lee paints a humane and unflinching portrait of the devastating effects of incarceration and addiction

But she soon realized they had come to her from within

"I never saw so gloomy and melancholy a face

the book traces Davis's life and work during the subsequent decades and her influential career as a public intellectual

and went on to write novels

For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home One World Helen Elaine Lee paints aNew York Times bestselling author and CNBC commenter Keith Boykin expands on the "It Gets Better" project by bringing together 25 essays by men of color on the topic of surviving growing up gay. In 1974, playwright Ntozake Shange published a choreopoem called For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. The book play poetry would go on to inspire legions of women for decades and would later become the subject and title of a