National Book Critics Circle board member Hope Wabuke resigned on Thursday, over remarks made by a longtime board member and former board president in an email thread, discussing objections to an anti-racism statement that was in draft form from an NBCC working committee. Following her resignation, that working committee posted on the NBCC’s website, “In the course of our committee’s discussion with the rest of the board, a Board Member responded to the statement with an email that many of us saw as racist. Before a planned vote on the statement today, details from the board’s internal discussion were released […]
