The Harlem Writers Guild , the nation’s oldest continuously operating African American writers’ organization, announced its 75th Anniversary celebration at the historic Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Friday, Oct. 24, honoring Dr. Brenda M. Greene with the Inaugural John Oliver Killens Literary Leadership Award for her work at the Center For Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY.

Founded in 1950 by John Oliver Killens, Rosa Guy, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Willard Moore and Walter Christmas, the Harlem Writers Guild has nurtured and championed some of the most influential Black voices in literature and the arts.

Its members have included Dr. Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, Paul Robeson, Lorraine Hansberry, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Louise Meriwether, Va

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