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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 20h

Tomorrow is the 2025 MAAH Stone Book Award Event. Have you registered yet? (We hope so because the evening is practically sold out!) The reception starts at 5:30pm(ET)/the award presentations are at 6:30pm(ET).

MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 2d

Need we say more?? Register now! Reception @ 5:30pm/Award Presentations @ 6:30pm at the African Meeting House @ 46 Joy Street, Boston, MA. bit.ly/2025-maah-stone-book-awards-tickets

MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 5d

Last year was awesome -- and this year will be awesome too! Join us next Thursday for the 2025 MAAH Stone Book Awards! Register today! bit.ly/2025-maah-stone-book-awards-tickets

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 6d

One more week until we live it up at the 2025 MAAH Stone Book Awards at the historic African Meeting House in Boston. Join us for a night filled with food and drink, good company, inspiring dialogue, overall excellence, and free books (to the first 100 people to arrive). Register via our website.

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 10d

Register today to attend the 2025 MAAH Stone Book Awards on Thursday, October 9th. Wine and hors d'oeuvres reception @ 5:30PM/Award Presentations @ 6:30PM. Free signed copy of one of the winning books to the first 100 people to arrive. Wear something cute and come through! bit.ly/2025-maah-st...

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 13d

Get your FREE ticket to attend the 2025 MAAH Stone Book Awards on 10/09. The MAAH Stone Book Award is the largest prize for non-fiction books that focus on African American history or culture. THE LARGEST PRIZE! Come celebrate these authors' impressive achievement. bit.ly/2025-maah-st...

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 15d

Register TODAY for the 2025 MAAH Stone Book Awards at the African Meeting House on 10/09! Reception @ 5:30/Awards Presentation @ 6:30. First 100 people to arrive win a free signed copy of one of the winning books, but EVERYONE wins an engaging evening. Register via website: maahstonebookaward.org.

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 21d

Meet our second 2025 Finalist Benjamin Barson! Come to our award event on October 9th to learn even more about Ben and his $10,000 winning book. Remember: the first 100 people to arrive win their choice of a signed copy of one of the winning books! bit.ly/2025-maah-st...

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 22d

Meet our 2025 Finalist Ana Lucia Araujo at our award event on 10/09 and hear more about her work and her winning book. Join us to celebrate Ana and her work when we present her $10,000 prize. bit.ly/2025-maah-st...

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 23d

Come to our award event on 10/09 @ 6:30pmn at the African Meeting House in Boston and meet our winning author Michelle Adams! bit.ly/2025-maah-st...

MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 25d

Ben Barson's 'Brassroots Democracy' is one of our two $10K 2025 Finalists! Dig it: a book that recasts the birth of jazz drawing on the narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal the role that jazz & jazz musicians played in mobilizing people during Reconstruction & beyond! bit.ly/2025-maah-st...

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 26d

Ana Lucia Araujo's 'Humans in Shackles' won one of our two $10,000 Finalists prizes! It is 'An Atlantic History of Slavery' that covers more than 300 years -- tracing the history of slavery not just in the United States of America, but in the Americas and Brazil in particular. bit.ly/2025-maah-st...

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 27d

'The Containment' by Michelle Adams is our winner this year! "What's it about?" you ask. 'The Containment' details the history & impact of the Detroit school desegregation case that ended the Brown v. Board of Education era. Come to the event on October 9th to learn more! Register on our website.

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 28d

Save the Date and REGISTER NOW! 2025 MAAH Stone Book Award Event at the African Meeting House in Boston on 10/09. Free reception (with food and drinks!) starts at 5:30pm. First 100 people to arrive win their choice of a signed copy of 1 of the 3 winning books. Register bit.ly/2025-maah-st...

MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 29d

Our jury has chosen Michelle Adams' 'The Containment' as the winning book this year, and Ana Lucia Araujo's 'Human in Shackles' & Benjamin Barson's 'Brassroots Democracy' as our 2 finalists! Prof. Adams wins our $50K prize; Drs. Araujo & Barson win $10K each. Congratulations Michelle, Ana, and Ben!

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · Sep 3

12/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: In 'Belonging', Gloria McCahon Whiting tells the region’s early history from the perspective of the people who belonged to others and who struggled to maintain a sense of belonging among their kin.

MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · Sep 2

11/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: In 'Another Word for Love' Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated in the struggles and beauty of growing up Black and queer in America.

MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · Sep 1

10/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: Covering an incredible range of cities from the North to the South, the East to the West, in 'Building the Black City ' Joe William Trotter, Jr. traces the growth of Black cities and political power from the preindustrial era to the present.

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · Aug 31

9/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South. But in 'King of the North' Jeanne Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago—outside Dixie—was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice.

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · Aug 30

8/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: Our dominant perception of time owes more to Western history and social order than to a fact of nature, argues writer Rasheedah Phillips, delving into Black and Afrodiasporic conceptions of time, where the past, present, and future interact in more numerous constellations.

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · Aug 29

7/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: David Greenberg’s 'John Lewis: A Life' captures John Lewis’s influential career through documents from numerous archives, interviews with 275 people who knew him, and rare footage of Lewis speaking from his hospital bed after Selma.

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · Aug 28

6/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: By focusing on how women of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) created an activist framework in 'An Efficient Womanhood' Natanya Duncan reveals a model of organizing that has endured into the present day.

MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · Aug 27

5/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: In 'Love, Rita' Bridgett M. Davis tells the story of her beloved older sister Rita, who knew Bridgett before she knew herself. Rita’s life was cut short by lupus when she was forty-four. This led Bridgett to ask the simple, heartbreaking question: Why Rita?

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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · Aug 26

4/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: Jokeda "JoJo" Bell's 'Red Stained: The Life of Hilda Simms' is the first full biography of her life and career.

MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · Aug 25

3/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: Benjamin Barson's 'Brassroots Democracy' recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed.

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