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Two years after the release of his book “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker,” the accolades keep coming for Damon Young.
The Pittsburgh author has won the 2020 Thurber Prize for American Humor. The Thurber Prize is a coveted national award named for writer and humorist James Thurber that originated in 1997.
The announcement of the 2020 Thurber Prize was delayed by the covid-19 pandemic.
The winner of the 2020 Thurber Prize for American Humor is. DAMON YOUNG!
Damon was awarded the 2020 Thurber Prize for his memoir, What Doesn t Kill You Makes You Blacker.
Damon Young Says Farewell to Very Smart Brothas
The blog he co-founded in 2008 will continue while Young, a native of Pittsburgh, moves to other projects.
May 7, 2021
PHOTO BY LAURA PETRILLA
Pittsburgh author Damon Young penned a fond farewell last week to the blog where his writing took off.
In “I’ll Be Around,” an article posted to Very Smart Brothas, Young says the time he spent with the blog helped him find his voice.
“After 13 years of it being the engine I bled the most fuel into, there’s nothing more I can give it, and nothing more it can give me, that wouldn’t divert bandwidth away from other ways to get better at this,” he wrote.
With all the talk about white privilege and critical race theory too many remain silent about a growing new racism: the justification for black privilege. Racism is racism no matter which race chooses to foster its application and wield it as a cultural weapon. Whites, driven into silence out of a false racial guilt, are seeing more and more special benefits being created to right past wrongs against black Americans.
President Biden s new infrastructure bill has funds for black universities; diverse universities committed to equal rights for all races need not apply. In San Francisco, Lowell High School, one of the top public high schools in
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