Salamishah TilletSalamishah Tillet is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize in criticism for her New York Times essays on race in arts and culture. She is the Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing and the Director of Express Newak, a center for socially engaged art and design, at Rutgers University-Newark. She is a contributing critic-at-large for the New York Times, and the author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination and the recent book, In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of An American Masterpiece. In 2003, she and Scheherazade Tillet founded A Long Walk Home, an organization that uses art to empower people to end violence against girls and women. Read More Read Less