Winship/PEN New England Award for Nonfiction. Michener Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and the L.L. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a James A. Jerald Walker is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in the general nonfiction category. Kendi, Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum, and The Person You Mean to Be, How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh, featuring a conversation with the author. Kendi, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X.

Previous titles have included Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman, Waking Up White by Debbie Irving, The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Register at The goal of the Hingham Unity Council book discussion series is to foster a more inclusive community by discussing stories of race, justice, and equity. Please register to attend by emailing you pick up a copy of the book at the September event and have a chance to read it, all are welcome to join a community conversation with the author hosted by the Hingham Unity Council on Thursday, November 3, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. Copies of How to Make a Slave will be available for purchase at the event. Free and open to all, the event will include a reading, book signing, and refreshments following the reading. at The Hingham Heritage Museum, 34 Main Street in Hingham. To honor his accomplishments, the Hingham Historical Society, in partnership with the Hingham Unity Council, is naming Jerald Walker a Hingham History Maker on Thursday, September 8, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. It is titled after the Fredrick Douglass quote, “You have seen how a man was made a slave you shall see how a slave was made a man,” and includes stories from growing up, parenting, writing, teaching, and existing as a black man in both an inner-city ghetto and predominately white suburbs. It is in this spirit – with a heavy dose of shrewd insight and wry humor – that Walker writes about his personal experiences with issues of race and shared humanity in his most recent book, How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, a Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction and winner of the 2020 Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction.

“Anger is often a prelude to a joke,” writes Jerald Walker, Hingham resident and award-winning author, “as there is broad understanding that the triumph over this destructive emotion lay in finding its punchline.”

How to make a slave by jerald walker