Black Pulitzer Prize winners

NEW YORK (AP) — Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer Prize for music Monday, making history as the first non-classical or jazz artist to win the prestigious prize. The revered rapper is also the most commercially successful musician to receive the award, usually reserved for critically acclaimed classical acts who don’t live on the pop charts. […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Three Black writers, including novelist Colson Whitehead for  “The Underground Railroad,” have taken home Pulitzer Prizes this year. Whitehead’s celebrated novel about an escaped slave that combined liberating imagination and brutal reality, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Monday’s announcement confirmed the book as the literary event of 2016, an Oprah Winfrey […]

  NEW YORK (AP) — Three Black writers, including novelist Colson Whitehead for  “The Underground Railroad,” have taken home Pulitzer Prizes this year. Whitehead’s celebrated novel about an escaped slave that combined liberating imagination and brutal reality, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Monday’s announcement confirmed the book as the literary event of 2016, an Oprah […]

The late August Wilson and his celebrated crowning achievement, “The Pittsburgh Cycle,” helped earn the playwright a series of awards and launched the careers of several talented actors. This week, the PBS network will air a documentary on the extraordinary life and rise of Wilson from his humble Pittsburgh beginnings. Born Fredrick August Kittell Jr. […]