by October Gallery
Hit podcast “Ear Hustle,” which brings listeners behind bars into California’s San Quentin prison, was named as a finalist for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize on Monday. The podcast, which is…
The 2020 Pulitzer Prizes, announced on Monday, included one very important posthumous winner: Ida B. Wells, a Black woman who became one of the most prominent and intrepid investigative journalists…
The trailblazing author Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, died Monday night at the age of 88, her publisher, Knopf, confirmed…
Jennifer Hudson surprised attendees at the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Awards ceremony luncheon in New York City on Tuesday. The Grammy award-winning singer channeled the “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin with…
The Pulitzer Board announced Monday that it was honoring Aretha Franklin with a posthumous award, commemorating the Queen of Soul in the category of “special citations.” At an announcement ceremony…
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver died at age 83 on Thursday, and her fans are coming out in droves on social media to remember her life’s work. Oliver, an Ohio…
By MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Playwright Neil Simon, a master of comedy whose laugh-filled hits such as “The Odd Couple,” ″Barefoot in the Park” and…
Rapper Kendrick Lamar, in a watershed moment for the Pulitzer Prizes, accepted the award for music Wednesday in a ceremony at Columbia University. Lamar, the first musician outside the classical…
May 22 (Reuters) – Author Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern Jewish-American experience, died on Tuesday at…
It’s not shocking that the first rapper to win a Pulitzer was Kendrick Lamar. On Monday, the Pulitzer Prize Board awarded him the prestigious honor in music for his album…