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His two nominations are the most recent recognitions for Texas Monthly's work this award season. See the full list.

A few notes on Tuesday's Dallas Citizens Council luncheon

Dan Goodgame is Texas Monthly's editor in chief. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and best-selling author, Goodgame joined TM in early 2019, after serving as a vice president at Rackspace, a cloud computing company based in San Antonio. Before that, Goodgame was editor in chief of Fortune Small Business magazine, whose subscribers were more than a million owners of entrepreneurial companies. He earlier worked for Time magazine as White House correspondent, Washington bureau chief, and assistant ma...

Jean-Raymond is the first Black designer invited by the French governing body to present.

The literary nonprofit Aspen Words will host six writers over the next six months in Woody Creek, restarting a writers-in-residence program that had been on pause during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Five resident authors will give free public talks on the lawn of the Red Brick Center for the Arts in coming months. This year’s residents include: • Heather Hansman, an award-winning journalist and author (“Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West”) whose work explores the interse...

Bay Area Book Festival Begins With A Star-Studded Roster Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail Bay City News Foundation The seventh annual Bay Area Book Festival, going all virtual for the second year in a row, launched its nine-day run on Saturday and is such a high-wattage affair, attendees may want to consider donning sunglasses to tune in. The literary luminaries who will be featured include Nobel Prize laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, 2020 National Book Award winner Charles Yu, renowned journ...

Life, and the story, the africans deck of flight, im just pointing everybody to the great black people. >> we came here and we forgot that we could fly. >> thats exactly right. theyd be out on the plantation and someday theyd say a secret word and get up on wings and fly away, and some would fly away for good, but some of them would fly away for just a little while. and i claimed that part of our that digs. i think many of us have to take whether its three minutes or three years or three decades...

Someone who can be excellent as opposed to someone who is just a behavioral problem, impacts that child, possibly for the rest of their life, and so racist ideas are impactful, right, they dont just kill people as we saw in el paso, they literally harm peoples lives. and thats why im struggle and striving to get americans to see how important it is to be antiracist. >> thats just the tip of the iceberg. its all in this book, how to be an antiracist, its available now, dr. ibram kendi, and casey ...

now youre thinking about baltimore, cleveland, staten island and other names like mike brown, eric garner tamir rice. all sparked by the mention of that one. the south americas that led to the end of freddie grays life are the same as those that forever changed the lives of those we dont know. donde johnson, sr., was paralyzed following a 2005 police van ride and later died of pneumonia caused by his paralysis. his family won a $7.4 million verdict against the police. in 2004 a jury aw...

>> miss crabtree is the way you should address me. and with us on set is jon meacham and andrea mitchell. >> can i say anything before we go anywhere? has in my opinion seen jon meachams pulitzer? >> im not going to address that. >> did anyone have vacations? were you all filling? you were away. amazing. i saw all of your pictures on instagram. >> did you have a good july fourth weekend? >> i took my girls and goddaughter to a red sox game. we all went. that was fun. >> did they win or...