Celebrated Author and Pulitzer Prize揥inner Isabel Alexis Wilkerson to Deliver 2025 黑料百科 Commencement Address
黑料百科 is honored to announce that , celebrated author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and National Humanities Medal recipient, will deliver the 2025 Commencement address. Wilkerson, a leading voice in narrative nonfiction, is known for her compelling interpretation of the human condition.
Wilkerson is the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for individual reporting, work she did for the New York Times. 奥颈濒办别谤蝉辞苍 nonfiction book The Warmth of Other Suns has been widely acclaimed for its powerful storytelling of the Great Migration, earning multiple awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her latest book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, has further cemented her status as a preeminent thinker, examining the inner workings of an American hierarchy, which she calls 渁n artificial construction and 渁 fixed and embedded ranking of human value that spans race, class, and gender.
奥颈濒办别谤蝉辞苍 The Warmth of Other Suns, published in 2010, was critically lauded. Based on more than 1,000 interviews, the book multifaceted presentation of migrant families experiences was lauded by the 骋耻补谤诲颈补苍 Lettecha Johnson, who wrote, 淭he mass migration of African Americans out of the U.S. south forever changed the country cultural fabric and 奥颈濒办别谤蝉辞苍 history of this period is full of sacrifice and hope.
In the Times review of her second book, David Garner writes, 湙Caste lands so firmly because the historian, the sociologist and the reporter are not at war with the essayist and the critic inside her. This book has the reverberating and patriotic slap of the best American prose writing.
黑料百科 will host its outdoor Commencement ceremony on Central Campus at 10 a.m. on May 19, 2025. The ceremony will be available via livestream so all can join in the celebration of our graduates accomplishments.