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Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Friday, January 07, 2022

Rare Toni Morrison short story, Recitatif to be released as a book on Feb. 1, 2022

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On February 1, 2022 "Recitatif," written by Morrison in the early 1980s and rarely seen over the following decades will be rele...
Friday, April 09, 2021

Amanda Gorman has the top spot on USA Today best-seller list

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Amanda Gorman is touting her new book as the first poetry title to land the top spot on USA Today's best-seller's list in its nea...
Friday, February 21, 2020

Phillis Wheatley: First African American woman to publish a book of poetry

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Phillis Wheatley, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first African-American woman to publish a book o...
Friday, June 07, 2019

Tayari Jones wins the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction

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American author Tayari Jones has won the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction with her fourth novel An American Marriage. At an awards cerem...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

Book of the week: The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Toni Morrison

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America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, ...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Princeton professor named country's next poet laureate

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Tracy K. Smith has a long list of accomplishments, from publishing three books of poetry to winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2012, and sh...
Tuesday, February 07, 2017

Black History Month: Gwendolyn Brooks award winning writer

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Gwendolyn Brooks was an award winning writer who went on to become the first African American to win a certain literary award. Learn ...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Congressman John Lewis wins National Book Award

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Congressman John Lewis can now add another accolade to his long and distinguished civil rights/political career. He has won a National B...
Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Nine Republicans Reject Naming Post Office After Maya Angelou

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Congress held a vote today on the rather mundane subject of renaming a post office, which normally passes with all 381 votes going for t...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Full list of nominees for the 46th NAACP Image Awards

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Here is the complete list of the nominees for the 46 NAACP Image Awards. There are some no brainers and quite a few surprises. N...