It is with great enthusiasm and pride to announce our very own Black Studies professor, Jeffrey Stewart, has won the 2018 National Book Award and the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for biography for his book, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke. Please join us in extending hearty congratulations to Professor Stewart for this richly deserved and incredibly exciting achievement. 

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jeffrey-c-stewart

https://www.nationalbook.org/books/the-new-negro-the-life-of-alain-locke/ 

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/019193/invisible-giant