Soyica Diggs Colbert
Soyica Diggs Colbert is the Idol Family Professor at Georgetown University and a winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship. Author of the award-winning Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, she has written for the New York Times and Washington Post. She lives in Washington, DC.
Soyica Diggs Colbert
Soyica Diggs Colbert is the Idol Family Professor at Georgetown University and a winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship. Author of the award-winning Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, she has written for the New York Times and Washington Post. She lives in Washington, DC.
Books by Soyica Diggs Colbert

Freedom's Gate: Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone Live at the New York Nightclub that Shaped the Civil Rights Movement
Soyica Diggs Colbert
Hardback, 2026
An illuminating portrait of five Black woman artists and the New York nightclub that helped inspire the civil rights movement.



