NEW YORK (AP) — Author, playwright and longtime champion of multiculturalism Ishmael Reed is receiving a lifetime achievement award for his contributions to literature.
Reed is among this year's winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, given for work that “confronts racism and explores diversity," the Cleveland Foundation announced Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Ayad Akhtar's acclaimed novel “Homeland Elegies," Ben Ehrenreich's environmental warning “Desert Notebooks,” and an illustrated edition of the late William Melvin Kelley's postmodern narrative “Dunfords Travels Everywheres” are among this year's winners of American Book Awards for works that highlight the country's diversity.
NEW YORK (AP) — Ever since the historical musical "Hamilton" began its march to near-universal infatuation, one group has noticeable withheld its applause — historians...