Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist,short story writer,poet,and social activist. In 1982,she became the first Afrо-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career,Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections,twelve non-fiction works,and collections of essays and poetry.
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters,Drama,and Music. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author,preferably dealing with American life,published during the preceding calendar year.
The Pulitzer Prize for History,administered by Columbia University,is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters,Drama,and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished book about the history of the United States. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers,for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes,four of which were awarded that year. The Pulitzer Prize program has also recognized some historical work with its Biography prize,from 1917,and its General Non-Fiction prize,from 1962.
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead is an American novelist. He is the author of nine novels,including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist;The Underground Railroad (2016),for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction;and The Nickel Boys,for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020. He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002,he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
Wendy Sue Kopp is the CEO and co-founder of Teach For All,a global network of independent nonprofit organizations working to expand educational opportunity in their own countries and the Founder of Teach For America (TFA),a national teaching corps.
Laila Lalami is a Moroccan-American novelist,essayist,and professor. After earning her Licence de lettres degree in Morocco,she received a fellowship to study in the United Kingdom (UK),where she earned an MA in linguistics.
Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns:The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) and Caste:The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
Kim Roberts is an American poet,editor,and literary historian who lives in Washington,D.C.
Marita Golden is an American novelist,nonfiction writer,professor,and co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation,a national organization that serves as a resource center for African-American writers.
Matt Apuzzo is an American journalist working for The New York Times.
In the wake of civil unrest and protests in Ferguson,Missouri,Professor Marcia Chatelain of Georgetown University created the #FergusonSyllabus Twitter campaign. Ferguson syllabus provides a space for educators to discuss integrating the events that happened in Ferguson into classrooms.
#CharlestonSyllabus(Charleston Syllabus),is a Twitter movement and crowdsourced syllabus using the hashtag #CharlestonSyllabus to compile a list of reading recommendations relating to the history of racial violence in the United States. It was created in response to the race-motivated violence in Charleston,South Carolina on the evening of June 17,2015,when Dylann Roof opened fire during a Bible study session at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church,killing 9 people.
Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones is an American investigative journalist,known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States. She joined The New York Times as a staff writer in April 2015,was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2017,and won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2020 for her work on The 1619 Project. Hannah-Jones is the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications,where she also founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy.
Mitchell S. Jackson is an American writer. He is the author of the 2013 novel The Residue Years,as well as Oversoul (2012),an ebook collection of essays and short stories. Jackson is a Whiting Award recipient and a former winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. In 2021,while an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Chicago,he won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing for his profile of Ahmaud Arbery for Runner's World. As of 2021,Jackson is the John O. Whiteman Dean's Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University.
Wesley Lowery is an American journalist who has worked at both CBS News and The Washington Post. He was a lead on the Post's "Fatal Force" project that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016 as well as the author of They Can't Kill Us All:Ferguson,Baltimore,and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement. In 2017,he became a CNN political contributor and in 2020 was announced as a correspondent for 60 in 6,a short-form spinoff of 60 Minutes for Quibi. Lowery is a former Fellow at Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service.
Dana Canedy is an American journalist,author,and publishing executive who worked at the New York Times for over 20 years,winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. She was appointed senior vice president and publisher of Simon &Schuster's flagship eponymous imprint in July 2020. She is the first African-American to head a "major publishing imprint".
Anne Marie Becraft,OSP was an American educator and nun. One of the first African-American nuns in the Catholic Church,she established a school for black girls in Washington,D.C.,and later joined the Oblate Sisters of Providence.
Evie Shockley is an American poet. Shockley received the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry for her book the new black and the 2012 Holmes National Poetry Prize. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2018.
Franchise:The Golden Arches in Black America is a book by Marcia Chatelain. Chatelain was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2022 James Beard Award for Writing for this book. She was the first black woman to win the latter award.
