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with the assistance of advisors when necessary, will act as judges for all competitions. An Awards Committee is appointed annually; subcommittees composed of representatives from particular disciplines have been established as advisory committees. For example, the writers of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters will review work in fiction, poetry, and drama, for awards recommendations, while another advisory group will review work in non-fiction, history and social science. Announcements will be made to the publishing industry, including the university presses. Press releases announcing the establishment of the awards will be sent to newspapers, magazines, appropriate trade journals and institutions of related study. The awards will be presented by the Black Academy during the course of its Second Annual Meeting in September, 1971.

The Black Academy of Arts and Letters' plastic artists - Romare Bearden, Ernest Crichlow, Floyd Coleman, Inge Hardison, Vertis Hayes, Jacob Lawrence, Lucille Roberts, and Charles White - will make their first year's award to the winners of a competition for a Black Academy of Arts and Letters emblem. There will be three awards: the winning emblem design and two honorable mentions; other selected designs will be on exhibit at the Annual Meeting of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters and in subsequent gallery exhibits.