Pulitzer Prize

Apr 18 2013

Hollywood by Choice

The 2013 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday, April 15, by the Pulitzer Prize board at a ceremony at Columbia University. The nonfiction accounts of two heroes of African descent emerged: Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, born in 1762 in the Caribbean French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola (the place of his birth now lies in Haiti, which shares the island), and famed civil rights attorney and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

“Devil in the Grove” (Harper) by Gilbert King won in general nonfiction.

Jul 19 2012

Second African American columnist to win Pulitzer

Funeral services are pending for Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist William Raspberry, who died Tuesday from complications of prostate cancer. He was 76.

Raspberry was the second Black columnist to win a Pulitzer. He wrote his opinion column for the Post for more than 40 years, and by the time he retired in 2005, in excess of 200 newspapers carried his column in syndication.

Apr 18 2011

Bell scandal

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The Los Angeles Times won a Pulitzer Prize for public service today for its investigation that uncovered hefty salaries being earned by top officials in the city of Bell and led to criminal charges being filed against eight people.

Los Angeles Times photographer Barbara Davidson also won a Pulitzer for feature photography for her series of photos on the victims of violent gang crime.

Terri Schichenmeyer  |   OW Contributor
Mar 10 2011

Edited by Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey, introduction by Lani Guinier

Ever since you were a toddler, you knew your colors.

Your mother would ask you to get your blue car, and blue was what she got. You’d never bring her something red if she asked for yellow. 

Green army men? Oh, yeah. You could find them because you learned your colors, just as naturally as you learned to talk.

But are you color-blind?

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.

California
San Diego college students and volunteers will carry out their sixth home restoration project on Wednesday, July 10 through Sunday, July 14. as part of the “Healing our Heroes’ Homes” (H3) program created by the nonprofit Embrace. The five-day effort will take place at the home of medically retired Marine Corps Capt. Sarah Bettencourt. Bettencourt served with many different units across the country during the Global War on Terrorism and developed a rare neurological disorder in 2008. With a focus to restore the homes of disabled veteran homeowners, H3 falls in line with Embrace’s mission to mobilize college-student volunteers and community members to serve less fortunate members of civilian and veteran communities. The project for the Bettencourts’ home includes kitchen and bathroom remodeling, building ADA-compliant disability ramps, widening their driveway to ADA standards, widening doorways and landscaping.
 
District of Columbia
The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will showcase its five-year community research project on African American identity with the program “The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity.” This multicity collaboration examines the history and culture of the aesthetics of African Americans. The festival will be held June 26-30 and July 3-7, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets. “Whether we realize it or not, we are all dress artists. The way we compose our look is a creative expression of our ideas about who we are and who we aspire to be,” said Diana N’Diaye, program curator. “This program explores the diversity of African American traditions of style, but also teaches young people the importance of documenting their own culture and saving that information for themselves and future generations.”