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Airea Dee Matthews is the assistant director of the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan and author of an upcoming poetry collection titled "simulacra" (Yale University Press, 2017). She was also the winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, which Walker won in 1942 for "For My People." Photo courtesy Airea Dee Matthews

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"For My People" Anniversary and LEAD Awards at JSU, New Chairwoman of Pediatrics and Children's Tower at UMMC

On Friday, Dec. 1, the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University will host an event to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the publication of Margaret Walker's first book of …

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