Gwendolyn Brooks has been a leading force in American letters ... Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1917, she was the first Black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize (1950 for Annie Allen). Author of more than ...

We studied under the direct tutelage of my mentor, activist/artist Oscar Brown Jr. and hers, Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Afro-American to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. They taught us how to ...

Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post, said Friday evening that she was resigning after the newspaper’s opinions section rejected a cartoon depicting Post ...

Art Spiegelman, whose graphic novel about the Holocaust won the Pulitzer Prize, now plans to write one about the war in Gaza — though he knows it will inevitably be controversial. “I’ve ...

even if this wasn’t a prestige drama based on a Pulitzer-winning novel, and dealing with a gut-wrenching historical tragedy. But Ross’ formalist roll of the dice pays off in a huge way ...

Jones travels to Moscow, where he meets Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter ... But things change when he meets Ada Brooks (Vanessa Kirby), a British journalist reporting to Duranty, who ...

When the longest trial in Georgia’s history ended recently, its chief chronicler reflected on the past two years. Bliv, as he’s known on Discord, is a twenty-five-year-old Texas resident with ...

Gwendolyn Roberts Harrell, of Petersburg, went home to be with the Lord on December 19, 2024. A native of Portsmouth, Virginia, she is preceded in death by her husband, William C. Harrell, Sr.; ...

Giovanni, subject of the prize-winning 2023 documentary “Going ... found a publishing cooperative that promoted works by Gwendolyn Brooks and Margaret Walker among others. For a time, she ...

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Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Art Spiegelman, whose graphic novel about the Holocaust won the Pulitzer Prize, now plans to write one about the war in ...