Renowned poet and publisher Dr. Haki Madhubuti was celebrated recently at the 50th anniversary of the National Book Critics Circle Awards.

Lauren Michele Jackson took home the second of the NBCC’s special awards, the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. “A sturdy critic is one who has no idea what they are going to ...

This year, Lauren Michele Jackson, a contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of “White Negroes,” received the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. The award ...

critic Lauren Michele Jackson and author-educator Lori Lynn Turner. Maxine Hong Kingston, whose classic “The Woman Warrior” received an NBCC award in 1977, was a keynote speaker.

Honorary awards were presented to “The House On Mango Street” author Sandra Cisneros, the Black-owned publisher Third World Press, critic Lauren Michele Jackson and author-educator Lori Lynn Turner.

Honorary awards were presented to “The House On Mango Street” author Sandra Cisneros, the Black-owned publisher Third World Press, critic Lauren Michele Jackson and author-educator Lori Lynn ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Hisham Matar's novel “My Friends” and a poetry collection by Anne Carson were among the winners Thursday ...