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Origin director Ava DuVernay on grief and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who inspired her latest film
9 months, 1 week ago

Origin director Ava DuVernay on grief and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who inspired her latest film

ABC  

Grief is complicated, says filmmaker Ava DuVernay. DuVernay was grieving when the inimitable Oprah Winfrey handed her a copy of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson's non-fiction book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents in 2020. "The idea of caste as being the foundational principle of so many of the -isms that we experience in our lives — whether it's racism, …

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Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor on Origin, Will Smith and how The Color Purple failed Black lesbians: ‘It’s not just a story about sisterhood’
10 months ago

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor on Origin, Will Smith and how The Color Purple failed Black lesbians: ‘It’s not just a story about sisterhood’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Everything else I tried felt insufficient.” From early roles such as Cuba Gooding Jr’s wife …

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10 books to help you understand inequality — and possible solutions
3 years ago

10 books to help you understand inequality — and possible solutions

LA Times  

In “Maid,” author Stephanie Land offers a firsthand account of life as a single mother struggling under the weight of crushing poverty and what she calls a “broken system of government assistance.” Land grew up in Washington state and Alaska, raised by parents whose families “had lived in poverty for generations.” When she took her infant daughter and left what …

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Winners of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prizes announced
3 years, 8 months ago

Winners of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prizes announced

LA Times  

The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced during a virtual ceremony today. It announces a powerful new voice on the literary landscape.” In her speech, Philyaw said she wrote the book “in hopes that Black women would see and hear themselves in my characters and their stories. “Dark, gruesome, vivid, utterly compelling, ‘At Night All Blood Is Black,’ a …

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Isabel Wilkerson, Jacob Soboroff, Akwaeke Emezi among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists
3 years, 10 months ago

Isabel Wilkerson, Jacob Soboroff, Akwaeke Emezi among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists

LA Times  

The finalists for the 41st Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced today, with Jacob Soboroff, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Ivy Pochoda, Douglas Stuart and Allan Wolf among the nominees for the annual literary awards. The Innovator’s Award will go to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation; the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement to Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko; and …

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Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ among finalists for Lukas book prize
3 years, 10 months ago

Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ among finalists for Lukas book prize

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — “Caste,” Isabel Wilkerson’s exploration of racism in the United States, and “The Dead are Arising,” an acclaimed biography of Malcolm X, are among this year’s nominees for awards presented by the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project. The project announced Thursday that Wilkerson is a finalist for the Lukas Book Prize, along with Becky Cooper’s “We Keep the …

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Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ on National Book Awards longlist
4 years, 3 months ago

Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ on National Book Awards longlist

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste,” her acclaimed study of racism in the United States, is among 10 nominees on the National Book Award longlist for nonfiction. “Caste” is Wilkerson’s first publication in a decade, after the prize-winning “The Warmth of Other Suns,” a history of Black migration from the South in the 20th century. Several nonfiction nominees center on …

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McBride, Wilkerson among nominees for Kirkus Prize
4 years, 4 months ago

McBride, Wilkerson among nominees for Kirkus Prize

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Elena Ferrante, James McBride and Isabel Wilkerson are among the nominees for the Kirkus Prize, a $50,000 honor for the best fiction, nonfiction and children’s books. The nominees, six each in the three categories, were chosen by panels of writers, critics, booksellers and librarians. In fiction, Ferrante was cited for her novel “The Lying Life of Adults,” …

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Oprah Sends Book on 'Caste' to CEOs That Compares America's Racism to India and Nazi Germany
4 years, 5 months ago

Oprah Sends Book on 'Caste' to CEOs That Compares America's Racism to India and Nazi Germany

News 18  

Oprah is sending a book on caste to US governors, mayors, CEO and college professors. The book is Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Isabel Wilkerson. The social media mogul Oprah on Tuesday said that this was her latest selection for her long-running book club and termed it as the most important one yet. …

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