Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, Brookland, presents the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominees Reading featuring Ishmael Beah, Saladin Ambar, Geffrey Davis, and Brian Gilmore.
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, sponsored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation, annually honor works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Black writers published in the previous year. Recognized as a singular award from the Black writing community to its peers, the Legacy Awards each year recognize members of the national and international Black writing community. Join four of the nominees—Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow, Saladin Ambar, Malcolm X at Oxford Union, Geffrey Davis, Revising the Storm, and Brian Gilmore, We Didn’t Know any Gangsters—as they read from their work on the eve of the award ceremony.
