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Greg Tate Receives Posthumous Pulitzer Prize

The groundbreaking cultural critic Greg Tate received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize three years after his death in 2021.

Greg Tate, the towering cultural critic and author(as well as musician), was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize on Monday, May 6. A blurb on the Pulitzer Prize website specifically commended Tate’s singular writing, noting the way his “language — cribbed from literature, academia, popular culture and hip-hop — was as influential as the content of his ideas. During the course of his 35-year career, he primarily worked as a critic at The Village Voice, but also contributed to many other publications, including Vibe, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone(check out his author page here).

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