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More than 120 years after Wilmington's coup d'état targeting Black elected officials and citizens, historians, researchers, and genealogists are still piecing together what the 19th century port city was like, who the victims of 1898 were, and where their surviving family members migrated to rebuild their lives.
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PEN America To Honor Five Career Achievement Prize Recipients
In Thursday’s 2021 PEN America program, the Career Achievement Prize recipients were announced: George C. Wolfe, Anne Carson, Daniel Alexander Jones, Kwame Dawes, and Pierre Joris.
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$88,500 in Awards Money
Thursday (April 8) at 7 p.m. ET (00:00 GMT Friday), PEN America will honor its five 2021 recipients of its Career Achievement Awards during its digital program announcing the winners of the Pen America Literary Awards.
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Publishing Perspectives readers will recall the 55 books grouped into a long set of shortlists for those US$380,000 literary awards from our article in February, the recipients of this year’s Career Achievement Prize winners have actually been named and can be announced now before Thursday night’s presentation.
Wilmington has a rich history, but many stories remain untold.
“A People’s History of Wilmington,” a series of virtual talks and discussions, highlights Black history and culture that is often missing from history lessons.
The series includes:
Cape Fear Rag: The Forgotten Jazz Roots of Wilmington, Thursday, April 8, 6:30 p.m.
North Carolina writer and historian Larry Reni Thomas grew up on the northside of Wilmington. His 1993 book, The True Story of the Wilmington 10, was among the first to focus attention on the injustices of 1971.
On the Record: Recovering the First Black Daily in the South, Thursday, April 15, 6:30 p.m.