Applications will open from July 1-November 1, 2026. NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The African Methodist Episcopal Church Publishing House and Sunday School Union announces the inaugural Henry Ossawa Tanner Prize for Art and Justice. The African Methodist Episcopal Church has from its founding understood art to be among the means by which a people preserve themselves and pass their history and traditions forward. This hour calls for the artist’s witness, which reaches the heart and the mind together and carries forward what a people most need to see and to re-member. Tanner was a son of African Methodism, born and reared inside its long struggle for the liberation and empowerment of the people it served. His father, Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner, was an early editor of The Christian Recorder and was elected to the episcopacy in 1888. His mother, Sarah Miller Tanner, is believed to have escaped slavery on the Underground Railroad as a child.…