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But, even after that book became canonized, “Spunk” remained essentially unknown for years. That’s because, until its rediscovery in 1997, the play had languished in the Library of Congress’s drama collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7e7ea1f14e7c48cd975559/27c32d04-9595-4432-a659-740b031488fd/Manuel+Acevedo_Circa+1986_After+the+PR+Day+Parade+workprint.jpg.png Home - New Arts Founded by director Salamishah Tillet, New Arts is a public arts studio at Rutgers University-Newark. 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Founded by Salamishah Tillet and Scheherazade Tillet, A Long Walk Home is a national organization in Chicago that uses art to empower young people and end violence against women and girls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7e7ea1f14e7c48cd975559/0c20f61b-d2df-4690-a787-8074b55d00d9/gov+murphy.jpg https://www.salamishah.com/writing daily 0.75 2020-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7e7ea1f14e7c48cd975559/1604173068922-UHWDQNN1A25FPPNRZADS/%28+The+GUARDIAN%29+power+of+touch.jpg Writing Opinion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7e7ea1f14e7c48cd975559/1604173123526-VJJENUWXK76KSVIOG2E6/%28NYT%29Four-Black-Artists-on-How-Racism-Corrodes-the-Theater-World.jpg Writing Criticism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7e7ea1f14e7c48cd975559/1604173027105-WNUXQRVOIBQSI8SURR3B/tillet-slideshow.jpg Writing Books https://www.salamishah.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7e7ea1f14e7c48cd975559/1606609976564-3ST8P68K9E6NZBNSOA9Q/GettyImages-1209918847.jpg Contact https://www.salamishah.com/projects daily 0.75 2023-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7e7ea1f14e7c48cd975559/1603394277380-OUVA6DA6K69RFLO1FOGW/Screen+Shot+2020-10-22+at+3.17.21+PM.png Projects - A Long Walk Home In 2003, Salamishah Tillet and her sister, Scheherazade Tillet founded A Long Walk Home, an arts organization that empowers young people to end violence against all girls and women. A Long Walk Home works with artists, students, activists, therapists, and community organizations, and cultural institutions to advocate for healing, address racial and gender inequality, and activate social change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7e7ea1f14e7c48cd975559/9a83668c-cbaf-4069-8de0-ac39dbbfbbce/41_TopSelect_vg.jpeg Projects - Pulling Together Curated by Salamishah Tillet and Paul Farber for Monument Lab, Beyond Granite’s “Pulling Together” is the first outdoor exhibition on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The exhibition features new works by the leading contemporary artists — Derrick Adams, Tiffany Chung, Ashon Crawley, vanessa german, Paul Ramirez Jonas, and Wendy Red Star — that each respond to a central curatorial question: "What stories remain untold on the National Mall?” August 18 - September 18, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7e7ea1f14e7c48cd975559/1633462656718-NP1FBMSGCN8HH2RZNW00/Screen+Shot+2021-10-05+at+3.37.26+PM.png Projects - Because of Anita Co-hosted and co-produced by Salamishah, and Cindi Leive, of The Meteor, “Because of Anita,” is an exclusive four-part podcast series, that examines the 30-year legacy of Professor Anita Hill’s testimony before the all-white, all-male Senate Judiciary Committee—and both what’s changed and what has not about our understandings of race, gender, and sexual harassment in the years since then. It features interviews with notables like Tarana Burke, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Kerry Washington, Drew Dixon, Carol Moseley Braun, Jane Mayer, Barbara Ransby, Irin Carmon, and Fatima Goss Graves—all of whom have been shaped by the hearings — and feature the first-ever public conversation between Hill and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7e7ea1f14e7c48cd975559/1633395941801-N8ARPQ2AFJUAMH1XCPDG/106A4214.jpg Projects - Express Newark In June 2021, Salamishah became the Director of Express Newark, a center for socially engaged art and design at Rutgers University-Newark. Inspired by the City of Newark’s ongoing legacy as an epicenter of art and activism, Express Newark is a third space that bridges the campus and community and supports contemporary artists who are dedicated to social justice in Newark and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7e7ea1f14e7c48cd975559/1607614526043-WOY2XNOOC9Y18NLQO7K4/106A8923.JPG Projects - New Arts Justice Founded in 2018, Salamishah is the faculy director of New Arts Justice, an intitiative at Rutgers University-Newark that support feminist approaches to socially engaged art in Newark and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7e7ea1f14e7c48cd975559/1614291230009-L0ZAKTS0EBK7S9OXMU0S/39EDl_Ra.jpg Projects - Black Girl Freedom Fund The #1Billion4BlackGirls campaign invites us to imagine what 2030 can look like if we invest $1 billion in Black girls and young women over the next 10 years. https://www.salamishah.com/about daily 0.75 2025-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7e7ea1f14e7c48cd975559/35f71cc1-3d89-493c-9278-0441060eefc5/S.+Tillet+Headshot+Color+2023.jpeg About - About A scholar, writer, and activist, Salamishah Tillet was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2022 for her work as a contributing critic at large for The New York Times where she has been writing since 2015. She is the author of In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece (Abrams, 2021), and Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination (Duke University Press, 2012). She was the co-host and co-producer of “Because of Anita” podcast with Cindi Leive of The Meteor. In 2022, “Because of Anita” won Webby and Gracie awards. She was awarded the 2020 Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction fellowship for her cultural memoir, All The Rage: Nina Simone and the World She Made. In May, she was named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for her next project, In Lieu of the Law: “Me Too’ and The Politics of Justice, a cultural history of the world’s largest social media movement. She was recently named the 2025 recipient of The Gordon Parks Foundation’s Genevieve Young Fellowship in Writing and the 2025 Emerson Collective Fellowship for leaders taking on a hyperlocal project to help their community come together and solve complex problems. She is the Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing and Africana Studies and the executive director of Express Newark, a center for socially engaged art and design at Rutgers University - Newark. Upon arriving at Rutgers, she founded New Arts Justice, a public art studio in the City of Newark. With her sister, Scheherazade Tillet, she founded A Long Walk Home, an arts organization that empowers young people to end violence against girls and women. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and African American Studies and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, her Master of Art in Teaching in English from Brown University, and her Masters of Art in English and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Harvard University. She holds an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Moore College of Art and Design. https://www.salamishah.com/books daily 0.75 2020-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7e7ea1f14e7c48cd975559/1606508471062-ZFF7VA6YW2HK1L8IASNG/Purple_mockup_14.jpg Books - In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by Salamishah Tillet Abrams Press (January 12, 2021) A close look at the genesis, impact, and transformation of a beloved novel. 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