{"id":1003,"date":"2025-07-28T16:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/?page_id=1003"},"modified":"2025-07-29T10:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:02:54","slug":"quraysh-ali-lansana","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/people\/quraysh-ali-lansana\/","title":{"rendered":"Quraysh Ali Lansana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-tulsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/07\/people-Quraysh-Ali-Lansana.jpg\" alt=\"Quraysh Ali Lansana\" class=\"wp-image-835\" style=\"width:292px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong><strong><strong>Quraysh Ali Lansana<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-db43db1a19043195499e08cf70e24171\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:600\"><strong>Applied Professor of English, Creative Writing &amp; Media Studies, University of Tulsa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quraysh Ali Lansana is author of over twenty books in poetry, nonfiction and children\u2019s literature. Lansana is Applied Professor of English\/Creative Writing &amp; Media Studies at the University of Tulsa, where he also serves as Director of the African American Studies program and the TU Media Lab. Lansana is Executive Producer of KOSU\/NPR\u2019s Focus: Black Oklahoma monthly radio program, recipient of a 2022 duPont-Columbia Award and a NAACP Image Award, among others. Lansana is also the recipient of a 2022 Emmy Award, among others, for his roles as host and consultant for the OETA (PBS) documentary film \u201cTulsa Race Massacre: 100 Years Later.\u201d A former faculty member of the Writing Program of the School of\u2028the Art Institute of Chicago and the Drama Division of\u2028The Juilliard School, Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center\u2028for Black Literature and\u2028Creative Writing at Chicago State University from 2002-2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Photo credit: Jamie Glisson, ImpressOK Studio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quraysh Ali Lansana Applied Professor of English, Creative Writing &amp; Media Studies, University of Tulsa Quraysh Ali Lansana is author of over twenty books in poetry, nonfiction and children\u2019s literature. 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