Black librarian's awards.Winners of the 2004 Black Caucus of the American Library Awards will pick up their honors at the Annual Conference of the American Library Association American Library Association, founded 1876, organization whose purpose is to increase the usefulness of books through the improvement and extension of library services. in Orlando, Florida, June 24 to 30.The BCALA BCALA Black Caucus of the American Library Association announced the winners of its 2004 Literary Awards in January at the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. . The awards recognize excellence in adult fiction and nonfiction by African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. authors published in 2003. The winner in the fiction category is Hottentot Venus by Barbara Chase-Riboud (Doubleday). The fiction Honor Book winners are Loving Donovan by Bernice McFadden (Dutton) and Joshua's Bible by Shelly Leanne (Warner Books). The nonfiction winner was In Black And White: The Life of Sammy Davies, Jr. by Wil Haygood (Knopf). The Honor Book winners are Freedom In The Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due (Ballantine), and Ella Baker and The Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby (University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press (or UNC Press), founded in 1922, is a university press that is part of the University of North Carolina. External link
For excellence in scholarship, BCAIA win honor Michael D. Harris for Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representations (University of North Carolina). |
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