• The Before Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed, "dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary...
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  • Award is administered by the multi-cultural focused nonprofit Before Columbus Foundation, which established it in 1978 and inaugurated it in 1980. The...
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    guest artist David Murray. Ishmael Reed is the founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, which since 1980 has annually presented the American Book Awards...
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    major literary awards, including the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. It was adapted into a stage play by Tanya Saracho, which was...
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    (Chelsea House, 1991) received a 1992 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. She is a trustee emerita of Columbia University and chair emerita...
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  • with Lyra Monteiro, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award, Before Columbus Foundation 2016, #4 on Politico Magazine's Annual List of the “50 Most important...
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    Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic...
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    Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics: The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation Award (1991) bell hooks: The Writer's Award from the Lila Wallace–Reader's...
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  • "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the ... {2013 winners}" Archived 2013-12-04 at the Wayback Machine. Before Columbus Foundation. Press release...
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  • imperialism.” His book Blowback (2000) won a prize in 2001 from the Before Columbus Foundation, and it was reissued in an updated version in 2004. Sorrows of...
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