Stern Lecture Series
Isabel Wilkerson | 2023 Speaker
Thank you for joining us at the 2023 Mary S. Stern lecture with Isabel Wilkerson! Watch this page for information about the 2024 lecture.
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Read and discuss Isabel Wilkerson's book "The Warmth of Other Suns."
About the Mary S. Stern Lecture Series
About Isabel Wilkerson
Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her deeply humane narrative writing while serving as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994, making her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African American to win for individual reporting. In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded Wilkerson the National Humanities Medal for "championing the stories of an unsung history."
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