Pulitzer Prize winner, Margo Jefferson, will give a talk called What is the 21st Century Essay, as a part of a yearlong series in partnership with the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities to commemorate the centennial of the Pulitzers. Jefferson is a cultural critic and the author of two books, On Michael Jackson and Negroland: A Memoir, for which she received the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography.