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Toni Morrison Among Lates Medal Of Freedom Honorees

April 30, 2012, 11:29 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first female secretary of state, a former astronaut, and a musical pioneer are among this year’s recipients of the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. President...

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Words and War: Toni Morrison at West Point

March 22, 2013, 7:45 pm

Students at West Point attending a reading by Toni Morrison on Friday. She read from her novel “Home,” which focuses on a Korean War veteran. (Kirsten Luce for The New York Times) WEST POINT, N.Y. — As...

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Maya Angelou Accepts Mailer Center Lifetime Achievement Award

October 18, 2013, 8:15 am

NEW YORK (AP) — Her body weak, her voice rich and strong, Maya Angelou sang, lectured and reminisced as she accepted a lifetime achievement award Thursday night from the Norman Mailer Center. The...

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James McBride’s “Good Lord Bird” Wins 2013 National Book Award in Fiction

November 22, 2013, 10:54 am

James McBride won the National Book Award on Wednesday night for The Good Lord Bird, an irreverent, sharp-eyed novel narrated by an escaped slave. It was published by Riverhead Books, part of Penguin...

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Toni Morrison’s Papers To Be Housed At Princeton University

October 23, 2014, 10:20 am

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — The papers of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison are now part of the permanent library collection of Princeton University. Princeton made the announcement Friday, shortly before the...

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Toni Morrison’s New Novel, “God Help The Child” Coming Out in April 2015

December 2, 2014, 11:08 am

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has an eleventh novel coming out late April titled God Help the Child. Morrison’s previous novels include The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon,...

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Kendrick Lamar Visits a New Jersey High School That Uses His Work to Help...

June 9, 2015, 5:48 pm

When Brian Mooney’s students struggled in March to digest the literary themes and dense language in Toni Morrison’s novel “The Bluest Eye,” Mr. Mooney sought inspiration from an unorthodox teacher of...

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BOOKS: 13 Must-Reads by Black Authors to Add To Your Library

November 14, 2015, 6:48 am

In light of the recent events surrounding racial and social injustice around the country, knowing our history, as part of our eternal quest to “stay woke,” is more important than ever. While many of us...

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Literary Women Pay Homage to Zora Neale Hurston on Her 125th Birthday

January 7, 2016, 8:51 pm

She was born in Notasulga, Ala., but she didn’t like the way her story started, so she rewrote it and claimed Eatonville, Fla., as her birthplace instead. She wasn’t too partial to 1891, the year her...

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Toni Morrison Receives $25,000 Honorary Award From PEN for American Fiction

March 2, 2016, 6:17 pm

article by Hillel Italie via blackamericaweb.com NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison has received an honorary prize named for another Nobel winner, the late Saul Bellow. PEN America, the...

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AALBC.com’s 50 Favorite African-American Authors of the 20th Century

August 3, 2016, 5:18 pm

article via aalbc.com 1,826 readers cast votes back in 2001 for their favorite African-American authors. Here we share the 50 authors who received the most votes ranked in the order of the total number...

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30 of the Most Important Articles by People Of Color in 2016 | The Huffington...

December 20, 2016, 2:12 pm

article by Zeba Blay via huffingtonpost.com Between the deaths of greats like Prince and Mohammed Ali, the destruction in Aleppo and the circus that was the U.S. presidential election, 2016 was the...

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Nobel Laureates Toni Morrison and Sir Arthur Lewis to Have Buildings Named...

April 28, 2017, 7:42 am

article by jbhe.com The board of trustees of Princeton University in New Jersey has announced that Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emerita at the university, will have...

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