Kendrick Lamar was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music on Monday, making him the first non-classical and non-jazz winner ever. Reforms put in place by Columbia University’s Pulitzer Prize Board between 1996 and 2004 aimed to expand the music prize to “larger forms” outside of modern classical music...
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