Rutgers-Newark Professor Salamishah Tillet Receives Pulitzer Prize | Rutgers University rutgers.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rutgers.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) by Broom, Sarah M. at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0802125085 - ISBN 13: 9780802125088 - 2019 - Hardcover
10 Books by Black Authors That Will Expand Your Worldview By Amanda Wowk • February 16, 2021 • Travel Tips
These 10 books written by Black authors conjure a strong sense of place, celebrate Black voices, and help readers better understand the Black experience. You’ll travel across countries, continents, and time and expand your worldview in the process.
1. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Winner of the Booker Prize, Girl, Woman, Other captures the complexities of what it means to be a Black woman in modern-day Britain, while masterfully peeling back the curtain on Britain’s colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.
London-based, Anglo-Nigerian writer Bernardine Evaristo is the author of eight books ranging in genre from poetry to short story to drama to criticism. She is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize.
January 27, 2021
Join Next City for the first of two virtual conversations in our series, “The Future of Monumentality,” as we examine the past, present, and future of public monuments from the unique intersection of art, design, and urbanism. The speaker series, moderated by New York Times critic Salamishah Tillet, is co-presented in partnership with the High Line.
In 2020 communities around the world protested the institutional racism of police violence toward Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people the same people who have experienced disproportionately devastating health effects and economic hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the most powerful symbols engaged by these protests has been the removal and defacing of monuments, as well as their use as focal points and backdrops for rallies, speeches, performances, and collections of protest signs. And as the disturbing insurrection in Washington, D.C., has shown, white supremacists continue to wield and deface monuments