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Dr. Loretta Woodard
Loretta G. Woodard, President
Marygrove College

Dr. Aldon Nielson
Aldon Nielsen, Vice President
Penn State University

Candis LaPrade, Secretary-Treasurer
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Will Nash, Program Chair
Middlebury College

Dr. Wilfred Samuels
Wilfred D. Samuels, Immediate Past President
University of Utah


AALCS Joint Awards Committee
Wilfred D. Samuels, Chair and AALCS
University of Utah

Keith Byerman, John W. Wideman Society
Indiana State University

Carolyn Denard, Toni Morrison Society
Independent Scholar

Hilary Holladay, The George Moses Horton Society
University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Aldon Nielsen, AALCS
Penn State University

Ernestine Pickens-Glass, The Charles Chesnutt Society
Clark Atlanta University

Linda Selzer, The Charles Johnson Society
Penn State University

Loretta G. Woodard, AALCS
Marygrove College


Newsletter Committee
Aldon Nielsen, Newsletter Editor
Penn State University

Yvonne Atkinson
California State University, San Bernardino

Traci Church Guzzio
SUNY Plattsburg

Rosetta Haynes
Indiana State University

Ann Hostetler
Goshen College

Karen Jahn
Independent Scholar

Candis LaPrade
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Wilfred Samuels
University of Utah

Linda Selzer
Penn State University

Esi Sogah (RA)
Penn State University

Joseph Thomas
California State University, Northridge


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Loretta G. Woodard
Marygrove College


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Andrew Koper
Marygrove College


"We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves."

Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" (1926)

The Street, Ann Perry

Bailey's Cafe, gloria Naylor

Tumbling, Diane MKinney-Whetstone

The Wedding, Dorothy West

Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan