Anthony Davis blends jazz and truth to reshape opera with stories from Black history and powerful modern themes.

Marsalis has been the president of the 56-year-old Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation since 2018. He received the ...

Mueenuddin’s book of short stories, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, which was released in 2009, earned him a place as a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize and the 2010 National Book Award.

Gwendolyn Brooks, a 32-year-old housewife and part-time secretary, has won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for “Annie Allen,” a ballad of Black Chicago life on May 1, 1950. Brooks is the first ...

One area resident, in fact, gave a few personal anecdotes of having known the late Rocky Mount-born Jazz great Thelonious Monk when the two were in New York.

John R. “Jack’’ Harrison, who won a Pulitzer Prize for The Gainesville Sun and later built an empire of small newspapers for the New York Times Company, died April 26 in Sarasota.

John R. “Jack’’ Harrison, a Des Moines native who won a Pulitzer Prize and built an empire of small newspapers for the New York Times Co., died Saturday, April 26, in Sarasota, Florida.

John R. “Jack” Harrison, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and retired VP of the New York Times Company, died at 91. Harrison won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for editorials advocating for better ...

John R. “Jack’’ Harrison, who won a Pulitzer Prize for The Gainesville Sun and later built an empire of small newspapers for the New York Times Company based out of Lakeland, died April 26 ...