MAAH Stone Book Award

MAAH Stone Book Award An annual $50,000 prize for a stellar non-fiction book focusing on African American history & culture

Save the Date!October 8thReception 5:30pmCeremony 6:30pmAfrican Meeting House : BostonRegistration Opening Soon
08/31/2026

Save the Date!
October 8th
Reception 5:30pm
Ceremony 6:30pm
African Meeting House : Boston
Registration Opening Soon

14/142026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList: Toni Morrison herself had great enthusiasm about Dana Williams's work on this...
08/12/2026

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2026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList:
Toni Morrison herself had great enthusiasm about Dana Williams's work on this story, generously sharing memories and thoughts with the author over the years, even giving her the book's title. From the manuscripts she molded, the authors she nurtured, and the readers she inspired, 'Toni at Random' demonstrates how Toni Morrison has influenced American culture beyond the individual titles or authors she published.

13/142026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList: Based on dozens of interviews and access to Ella Jenkins’s personal archives,...
08/12/2026

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2026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList:
Based on dozens of interviews and access to Ella Jenkins’s personal archives, 'This Is Rhythm' shares how Jenkins, a “rhythm specialist” with no formal musical training, became the most prolific and significant American children’s musician of the twentieth century, creating a beloved catalog of songs grounded in values of community-building, antiracism, and cultural pluralism.

12/142026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList: In this tapestry of intersecting stories, including those of her own family, ...
08/11/2026

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2026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList:
In this tapestry of intersecting stories, including those of her own family, Rashauna Johnson charts the global transformation of a rural region in Louisiana from European colonialism to Jim Crow. From her ancestor Virgil to her cousin Veronica and her hand-sewn Mardi Gras memorial suit more than a century later, this history is one of triumphs and trauma, illustrating the ways people of African descent have created sites of endurance, belonging, and resistance.

11/142026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList: In the world of Black radical politics, the name Audley Moore commands unques...
08/11/2026

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2026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList:
In the world of Black radical politics, the name Audley Moore commands unquestioned respect. Across the nine decades of her life, Queen Mother Moore distinguished herself as a leading progenitor of Black Nationalism, the founder of the modern reparations movement, and, from her Philadelphia and Harlem homes, a mentor to some of America’s most influential Black activists.

10/142026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList: 'Model Schools in the Model City' chronicles how Black Washingtonians used pu...
08/10/2026

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2026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList:
'Model Schools in the Model City' chronicles how Black Washingtonians used public education as a means of racial uplift in the face of entrenched white resistance and repeated assertions of white supremacy. For Black Washingtonians, it was the school building—a permanent structure, made of sturdy material—that was the physical realization of Black liberation, agency, and the right to exist as citizens of the United States.

9/142026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList: Written with sparkling prose, Tourmaline’s richly researched biography 'Marsha...
08/10/2026

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2026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList:
Written with sparkling prose, Tourmaline’s richly researched biography 'Marsha' finally brings this iconic figure to life, in full color. Her story promises to inspire readers to live as their most liberated, unruly, vibrant, and whole selves.

8/142026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList: Deeply researched and grippingly told, 'Freedom Ship' offers a groundbreaking ...
08/09/2026

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2026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList:
Deeply researched and grippingly told, 'Freedom Ship' offers a groundbreaking new look into the secret world of stowaways and the vessels that carried them to freedom across the North and into Canada.

7/142026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList: Paying close attention to political economy and class while drawing on unexami...
08/09/2026

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2026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList:
Paying close attention to political economy and class while drawing on unexamined archival sources and oral histories of Black working-class Atlantans, especially Black women, in 'Class Warfare in Black Atlanta', Wood reframes our understanding of contemporary Black urban life by highlighting the centrality of the dynamics of intraracial class conflict in urban space.

6/142026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList: On the sweltering, rainy night of August 23, 1917, one of the most consequenti...
08/08/2026

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2026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList:
On the sweltering, rainy night of August 23, 1917, one of the most consequential events affecting America’s long legacy of racism and injustice began in Houston, Texas.

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