Salamishah Tillet is the author of In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece and a contributing critic-at-large for The New York Times. From Occupy Wall Street to Black ...

Salamishah Tillet is the Henry Rutgers Professor of Africana Studies and Creative Writing at Rutgers University, Newark, and a 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning contributing critic at large at The New ...