Winners of the Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Foundation's Legacy Awards will be announced at a ceremony on November 3 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Winners of the Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Foundation's Legacy Awards will be announced at a ceremony on November 3 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The nominees, announced in July, include John Hope Franklin, Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); David Anthony Durham, Pride of Carthage Carthage, ancient city, N AfricaCarthage (kär`thĭj), ancient city, on the northern shore of Africa, on a peninsula in the Bay of Tunis and near modern Tunis. The Latin name, Carthago or Cartago, was derived from the Phoenician name, which meant "new city. (Doubleday); Mary Francis Berry, My Face Is Black Is True (Alfred A. Knopf); and Denise Nicholas, Freshwater Road (Agate agate (ăg`ĭt), translucent, cryptocrystalline variety of quartz and a subvariety of chalcedony. Agates are identical in chemical structure to jasper, flint, chert, petrified wood, and tiger's-eye, and are often found in association with opal. Publishing, Inc.). The annual award honors black writers in fiction, debut fiction, nonfiction and contemporary fiction.
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