For Gaza's Children: Progressive Black, Brown and Jewish Writers and Poets Speak Out - Tapa blanda

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Haki R. Madhubuti is a best-selling poet, author, publisher, and educator, and is widely regarded as one of the architects of the Black Arts Movement and is founder and publisher of Chicago's Third World Press. Professor Madhubuti has published more than 37 books and his poetry and essays have been selected for more than 100 anthologies. In 1967, Madhubuti founded Third World Press, the oldest continuously publishing Black-owned book publisher in the United States. In 2015, the publishing house expanded its mission as Third World Press Foundation. Among his many awards, he received the Literary Legacy Award from the National Black Writers Conference for creating and supporting Black literature and for building Black literary institutions. Professor Madhubuti received his 5th Honorary Doctorate of Literature from Knox College in May 2022 and was also named University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Chicago State University. He was a recipient of the Pegasus Lifetime Achievement Award from the Poetry Foundation in October of 2022.  Marc Lamont Hill is one of the leading intellectual voices in the country. Hill is a Presidential Professor of Anthropology and Urban Education at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Since his days as a youth in Philadelphia, Hill has been a social justice activist and organizer. He has worked on campaigns to end the death penalty, abolish prisons, and release numerous political prisoners. He has also worked in solidarity with human rights movements around the world. Since the 1970s, Keith Gilyard has made significant contributions to English studies as a writer, teacher, and participant in professional associations. His more than 100 publications include the influential education memoir Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence, the wide-ranging True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy, and the revivifying On African-American Rhetoric. He received an American Book Award for his biography John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism. His dozens of creative works include the novella The Next Great Old-School Conspiracy and the poetry volumes Dominant Seventh and Monologues.