Rural New Hampshire life redefined the Pulitzer finalist's poetry. His voice rang out for decades, in print and at public readings, inspiring fellow poets and earning a National Medal of the Arts from President Obama.
The Alabama Media Group writer talks with Katti Gray on how issues facing the state he loves mirror the cultural and political conflicts across America.
'The writing process was long, and the reason it felt long was because at the time, there were moments when I couldn’t continue, when it was very intense,' Ghansah said.
'There is a lot of attention on the national government — on Trump now and Obama when he was president — that doesn’t reflect the national government’s lack of power to change things,' the 'Locking Up Our Own' author said.
'I wanted readers to know we have this wonderful living, giving sea and we’ve taken a lot from that sea. But to continue to doing so we have to give back,' 'The Gulf' author said.
As part of our ongoing efforts to digitize our archive, read an excerpt from the venerable journalist's Prize-winning memoir of life in apartheid-era South Africa.
As colleagues and friends pay tribute to the multifaceted legend, Newsday has republished a selection of his Pulitzer-winning work.
Trailblazing female columnists Mary McGrory and Meg Greenfield added fresh viewpoints to the Washington press corps — and earned Pulitzers in the process.
As renegade Governor Orval Faubus attempted to block the court-ordered integration of Little Rock's schools, the Arkansas Gazette executive editor declared that "the mobs in front of Central High School have at no time been in any sense representative of the people of Arkansas."
For Black History Month, look back at the work of Pulitzer-winning African-American photojournalists, and prize-winning images documenting pivotal moments in race relations.
