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Article: A platform for nurturing new literary talent: the Hurston/Wright foundation and its cofounder Marita Golden discover and groom emerging writers of African descent.(spotlight)
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- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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It is a fall night at a suburban Washington, D.C., hotel where authors--some decked out in artistic and Afrocentric variations of "black-tie"--are arriving for the Oscar-like ceremony. The occasion is the 2004 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the third annual bestowing of the first major prize for published authors of African descent, Marita Golden, president of The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, slips through the elegant crowd, fielding reporters' questions while greeting members of the black literati and their supporters.
Golden, swathed in a red stole, spots Legacy nominee Wil Haygood (In Black told White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr.) and rushes over to ...
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