New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Nurse & Patient he can't risk growing weak

he can't risk growing weak

music held her heart

and what traps us in place

' Catherine Hall

this is a novel of breathtaking scope

New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Nurse & Patient he can't risk growing weakWinner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. In The New