TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: The billboard on 42nd Street near Times Square  was half a block long. Scrawled in rainbow colors was the title of an innovative new play  “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.” And adorning that 1977 billboard was a portrait of a young black woman in a do-rag: the playwright Ntozake Shange .
 Shange’s  rise to international fame and  her  sudden disappearance — followed by decades of physical and mental health challenges — are part of one of the most dramatic lives in Broadway history. Now   Shange  reflects on these events and more in a new collection of poetry called “Wild Beauty.”
In 1975   Shange  had arrived in New York from California with  her  dancer friend Paula Moss and a satchel of poems.  She  and Moss began reading and dancing to  Shange ’s poems in New York cafes. The next thing  Shange  knew   she  was being whisked off by theatrical producer Woodie King Jr.  who told  her  what  she ’d really written was a play. After a few weeks of working with King and others   Shange  winnowed  her  poems down to the voices of seven women  who remain nameless but can be identified by the colors of their dresses.
Author Ntozake Shange (Adger Cowans)
Miraculously  she typed out her first new poem in years  an overview of her whole life. Titled “these blessings ” it appears in her new collection  “Wild Beauty ” which contains more than 60 new and previously published poems  all of which are also translated into Spanish by Alejandro Álvarez Nieves. The bilingual edition was  Shange ’s idea  reflecting her lifelong concern with the African diaspora throughout the Americas.
There is no question that  Shange  is a black writer. Not only does she write in a style that mimics the sound and syntax of black speech  but much of her material is drawn from the daily realities of black life. No poet since Langston Hughes has insisted so forcefully on black people’s right to simply be:

SOLUTION: Ntozake Shange

PROBLEM: In a matter of days  transgender model  Munroe Bergdorf  went from posting  her  excitement after being hired by makeup brand L'Oreal Paris to calling for a boycott of the company.
Early Friday  the UK division of the company announced its partnership with the London model was ending after  she  posted a comment on Facebook that started with  "'Honestly I don't have energy to talk about the racial violence of white people any more. Yes ALL white people."
LâOrÃ©al champions diversity. Comments by  Munroe Bergdorf  are at odds with our values and so we have decided to end our partnership with  her . â L'OrÃ©al Paris UK (@LOrealParisUK) September 1  2017
 Bergdorf  fired back that  her  words about the white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville last month were taken out of context and that the company didn't want  her  talking about systemic racism.  She  said  she  was "disappointed with the company" and wrote a massive post about the irony of being on a beauty campaign that "stands for diversity" and then getting fired for talking about white privilege.
 Bergdorf  directly addressed the controversial statement that appears to have led to  her  firing. "When I stated that 'all white people are racist'  I was addressing that fact that western society as a whole  is a SYSTEM rooted in white supremacy - designed to benefit  prioritise and protect white people before anyone of any other race. Unknowingly  white people are SOCIALISED to be racist from birth onwards. It is not something genetic. No one is born racist "  she  wrote on Facebook.
 Bergdorf  had announced earlier this week that  it  was "such an honour to become L'Oreal's first transgender model in the UK."

SOLUTION: Munroe Bergdorf

PROBLEM: Premier Silvio Berlusconi urged lawmakers Monday to support him in looming no-confidence votes  warning that bringing down his government would be "folly" because stability is essential as the country battles economic crisis.
 The embattled Italian leader appealed to a group of rebel lawmakers who have vowed to try to oust him during Tuesday votes. He offered to negotiate a new agenda that would allow the government to survive until new parliamentary elections are held in 2013  as well as a Cabinet reshuffle to give government positions to those who support him in the crucial parliamentary test.
 "The last thing Italy needs is a political crisis " Berlusconi argued in a 30-minute speech to the Senate.
 Berlusconi faces votes Tuesday in both houses of parliament after a dramatic falling-out with his one-time closest ally  Gianfranco Fini  his party's co-founder. Berlusconi was once immensely popular  but his approval ratings have nose-dived and his political capital diluted amid scandals engulfing his private life  reports of lavish parties and alleged encounters with prostitutes.
 He risks more in the lower house  where the split with Fini has potentially deprived him of a majority. With the vote expected to be decided by just a handful of votes  Berlusconi has been trying to persuade undecided lawmakers.
 of a majority. With the vote expected to be decided by just a handful of votes  Berlusconi has been trying to persuade undecided lawmakers.
 Speculation of vote-buying has been rife  but Berlusconi's allies have rejected any such accusations.
 On Monday  the premier appealed to rebel lawmakers who have sided with Fini by reminding them of "the long way we have come together."
 "I'm certain nobody wants to hastily throw away what we have created together " Berlusconi said  mentioning among other things the formation of the People of Freedom party that they founded together.
 "All can be done  save for betraying the mandate of voters " said Berlusconi  his government partner and close ally Umberto Bossi  leader of the Northern League  right next to the premier.
 He offered to "strengthen the government lineup" -- code word for a Cabinet shuffle. He said dialogue with moderates will be possible  but only if they ensure support to the government in the votes. He has rejected the requests of the Fini camp to resign ahead of the parliamentary votes.
 If Berlusconi wins  he is assured more time in office  even though a razor-thin majority is no guarantee of stability. If he loses  he has to resign -- a move that might lead to early elections  though not necessarily.
 The decision to dissolve parliament and call an election rests with the president  Giorgio Napolitano. The president could also ask Berlusconi to form a new government  possibly with a broadened coalition and a revised program  or tap a new premier to lead a new government.

SOLUTION:
Silvio Berlusconi