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The members of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row (sitting) left to right: N. Carroll, C. Lozada, K. Lytle Hernández, E. Alexander, E. Ramshaw, M. Miller, N. Barnes; back row left to right: J. Archibald, A. Applebaum, N. Trethewey, S. Chan, G. Thompson, G. Escobar, K. Merida, D. Remnick, V. T. Nguyen, G. Chua (absent: C. Shipman, J. Cobb). (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)

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Elizabeth Alexander and Emily Ramshaw, co-chairs; Marjorie Miller, administrator

Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson

Publication
Jim is Still Crowing
Citation
Premiered on February 8, 2024 at Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, N.Y., a series of musical scenes, each using a variety of techniques and textures to convey the ongoing battle against second-class citizenship for Black and Brown people and their struggle for acceptance, a challenging and meaningful work.
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George Lewis

Publication
The Comet
Citation
Premiered on June 14, 2024 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, an ingenious pairing of works by W. E. B. Du Bois and Claudio Monteverdi that moves between the social corruption of ancient Rome and Jim Crow America, combining elements of chromaticism and a free jazz aesthetic. Libretto by Douglas Kearney.
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