Amplifying, rewarding, and celebrating exceptional new scholarship in the field of African American history and culture.
fabulous jurors: 5
submissions this year: 118
boxes shipped to jurors: 25
total weight: 625lbs #MAAHStone2024: on fire!
Submissions are open.
Deadline: April 15, 2024
The 2023 winners!
Thulani Davis' The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom is the winner of the $50,000 MAAH Stone Book Award!
Kerri K. Greenidge's The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family and Claude Johnson’s The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era are our two finalists. Each author receives $10,000.
Join us on October 19th @ 6:30pm ET at the African Meeting House on Beacon Hill, Boston, MA for this year's in-person (finally!) award event. The evening will feature remarks by this year's winning authors introduced by our fantastic panel of jurors, followed by a conversation with our winning author Thulani Davis and GBH's Under the Radar and podcast host Callie Crossley A Q&A session with the audience will round out the evening.
The library is open.
Visit the MAAH Stone Book Award Library to peruse the complete catalog of eligible books submitted for the award since its inception in 2017, representing a specialized collection of contemporary scholarship in all areas of African American history and culture.
Search our more than 345 books by theme, author, publisher, or year submitted.
