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American scholar, writer, and feminist activist

Salamishah Margaret Tillet (born August 25, ) is an American scholar, writer, and feminist activist.

I was born a child prodigy, darling.

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I'd like to tell you that I grew up on Nina Simone's music and say that I've always been a radical feminist and a lover of Black people.

Salamishah Tillet is a feminist activist, scholar, and writer.

Salamishah Tillet is the Henry Rutgers Professor of Africana Studies and Creative Writing at Rutgers University, Newark, and the Pulitzer.

She is the Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing at Rutgers University–Newark, where she also directs the New Arts Justice Initiative. Tillet is also a contributing critic-at-large at The New York Times.

In , Salamishah co-founded A Long Walk Home, a Chicago-based non-profit that uses art to empower young people to end violence against girls and women. Tillet received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in for "learned and stylish writing about Black stories in art and popular culture–work that successfully bridges academic and nonacademic critical discourse."^[1]

Early life and education

Tillet was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Lennox Tillet and Volora Howell.

Her name, Salamishah, combines "salaam", the Arabic word for peace; "mi", her parents' interpretation