Vivian Ayers Allen, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet and the mother of Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad, has died at 102.
Darnella Frazier, the young Black woman who recorded the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department, has recently been honored with the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Special Citations and Awards.
The resolution follows the efforts of two state legislators who initially proposed a state-wide celebration on Morrison's birthday.