Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded by Columbia University each spring since 1917. The awards are chosen by a board of jurors for Journalism, Letters, Music, and Drama.
2021 Winners:
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Illuminating the loves and lives, the desires and ambitions of these characters with compassion, wit, and intelligence, The Night Watchman is a majestic work of fiction from this revered cultural treasure.
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Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
Postcolonial Love Poem unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope — in it, a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses love.
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The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
The Dead Are Arising is a penetrating and riveting work that affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle.
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain
Taking us from the first McDonald’s drive-in in San Bernardino to the franchise on Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri, in the summer of 2014, Chatelain shows how fast food is a source of both power — economic and political — and despair for African Americans. As she contends, fast food is, more than ever before, a key battlefield in the fight for racial justice.
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