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Buckle Up Everyone! Tomorrow we start the deep dive, sharing each submission we received this year. It's going to be a bumpy ride full of so many fascinating books, it'll have you rocking in your seat! #MAAHStoneAtoZ

Meet Frederick Knight, PhD. One of the jurors for the 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award!

Meet Courtney Baker, PhD. One of the jurors for the 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award!

Meet Charles McKinney, Jr., PhD. One of the jurors for the 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award!

Meet Karen Cook Bell, PhD. One of the jurors for the 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award!

Meet William Sturkey, PhD. One of the jurors for the 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award!

WOW! We received 158 eligible submissions for the 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award. They're all winners, baby! But only 1 will win the $50,000 prize which we will announce LIVE at our award event at the Boston African Meeting House on October 8th! Two finalists will also win $10,000 each.

The 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award is now open for submissions! Submissions accepted from publishers & literary agents ONLY. Authors -- be sure to contact your publishers/agents to urge them to submit your eligible works before April 15th. $50,000 to the winner and $10,000 to two finalists.

Thanks to our winning authors and our wonderful discussant for an amazing night last night. Thanks to our jurors. Thanks to all the volunteers. But mostly, thanks to YOU for attending in-person or viewing online. (You can still watch the video on our website.) Be well till next year, y'all:10/8/26.

If you one of the lucky ones joining us this evening in person, see you @ 5:30 at the museum, 46 Joy St. Remember - the first 100 to arrive win a free signed copy of one of the winning books. And if you are one of the treasured ones watching us from afar, the livestream starts at 6:30pm(ET). Later!

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).

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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.

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...

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

2/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: Covering more than 300 years, Ana Lucia Araujo's 'Humans in Shackles' grapples with history by foregrounding the lived experience of enslaved people in tracing the long, complex history of slavery in the Americas.

1/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: In 'The Containment', legal scholar Michelle Adams tells the epic story of the struggle to integrate Detroit schools—and what happened when it collided with Nixon-appointed justices committed to a judicial counterrevolution.

The 2025 MAAH Stone Book Award Short List! Congratulations to the authors and publishers!

Whew -- that's a wrap! Did you check out all 141 books that were submitted for the book award this year? Scroll through our feed to see any you might have missed because this year's cohort is MIND-BLOWING.

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