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Nafissa Thompson-Spires (born 1983) is an African American writer. Her first book, Heads of the Colored People (2019), won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction , the PEN/Open Book Award , and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction.
Nafissa Thompson-Spires: Heads of the Colored People (paperback) Nominee [17] Sheila Brooks and Clint C. Wilson II Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call: Activist Voice for Social Justice: Nominee [17] 2020 Hal Banfield: I Am Dance: Words and Images of the Black Dancer: Winner [18] Erica Campbell
Nafissa Thompson-Spires: Heads of the Colored People: Winner [22] [23] [24] Wayétu Moore: She Would Be King: Finalist [23] Jamel Brinkley: A Lucky Man: Finalist [23] Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: Friday Black: Nominee [23] David Chariandy: Brother: Nominee Esi Edugyan: Washington Black: Nominee 2020 Curdella Forbes: A Tall History of Sugar: Winner ...
Nafissa Thompson-Spires: Heads of the Colored People: Winner [41] Lisa Halliday: Asymmetry: Finalist [42] Katya Apekina: The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish: R. O. Kwon: The Incendiaries: Tommy Orange: There There: 2019 Namwali Serpell: The Old Drift: Winner [43] [44] De’Shawn Charles Winslow: In West Mills: Finalist [45] Sarah Elaine ...
Nafissa Thompson-Spires: Karen Chilton "Lucy Terry Prince" 1749–1754 Dorothy E. Roberts: Jamal Henderson "Race and the Enlightenment" 1754–1759 Kyle T. Mays David Sadzin "Blackness and Indigeneity" 1759–1764 Tiya Miles: Kristen Ariza "One Black Boy: The Great Lakes and the Midwest" 1764–1769 Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Shayna Small "Phillis ...
A local St. Louis, Missouri, news station apologized after facing backlash for describing minority homeowners as "colored" during a broadcast.
Nafissa Thompson-Spires (M.A. 2005, Ph.D. 2009) – writer, 2019 Whiting Award [97] Pat Toomay – NFL defensive end, author of Any Given Sunday, basis for Oliver Stone's film of the same name (1999) William Trowbridge (Ph.D. 1975) – poet, Academy of American Poets Prize [98]
Former deputy executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Director of Branches and Field Administration of the NAACP during the Civil Rights Movement; [26] Mike Davis: Zeta Delta: California State Assembly member [3] Rufus Davis: Theta Eta