Salamishah Tillet is an Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the co-founder of the A Long Walk Home, Inc., a non-profit organization that uses ...

An exhibition called “Scheherazade Tillet: Black Girl Play" showcases years of work celebrating the experience of Black girls across experiences including prom preparation in Chicago, private ...

January 26, 2021 In Search of the Color Purple. Rutgers University-Newark Professor Salamishah Tillet explored Alice Walker’s 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Pu… ...

Salamishah Tillet, a Pulitzer-winning critic, discusses the book she has read the most over the course of her life — Toni Morrison’s classic novel of slavery and trauma.

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 ...