The president and five other board members of the National Book Critics Circle have resigned amid allegations of racism and violations of privacy.
Laurie Hertzel, who had served as president since 2019, announced over the weekend that she was leaving the 24-member board. Her departure came two days after another board member, Ugandan-American writer Hope Wabuke, posted screenshots on Twitter of an email exchange that included correspondence from Hertzel and board member Carlin Romano.to the worldwide protests against police racism and violence.
“As members of the NBCC board were trying to work out the wording of a statement in support of Black Lives Matter and against racism, especially in our own realm of publishing, private exchanges were made public on Twitter, which made it impossible to continue with this discussion in good faith,” Hertzel wrote.“I, along with five of our board members resigned, though not in a coordinated fashion.
Romano, a former NBCC president, had raised objections in his email to the proposed statement from the NBCC board, notably that “white gatekeepers” in the publishing sector “stifle black voices.” Romano responded that many black writers had benefited from “good-willed white editors and publishers” and that he had seen “far more of white people helping black writers than of black people helping white writers.
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