He won the Best Columnist honor from Editor and Publisher magazine, the award in commentary for Outstanding Coverage of the Black Condition from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Columnist of the Year Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and a plethora of other excellence in writing honors including 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Leonard Pitts, Jr., author of Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood, is a rare and insightful thinker whose commentary on the crisis of young Black males is a soul-stirring approach to one of the most crucial issues facing Black America today.
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