She wrote many plays and books that had to do with the struggles and lives of Black America. Among her plays are "Sister Son/ji", which was first produced Off-Broadway at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater in 1972; "Uh, Huh: But How Do it Free us?", staged in Chicago at the Northwestern University Theatre in 1975, and "Malcolm Man/Don’t Live Here No Mo’", first produced in 1979 at the ASCOM Community Center in Philadelphia. Sanchez has edited two anthologies of Black literature: "We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans" (1974) and "360° of Blackness Coming at You" (1999). She is also committed to a variety of activist causes, including the Brandywine Peace Community, MADRE, and Plowshares.