Complex sentence: In 1995, he received the Langston Hughes Medal, awarded by City College of New York; in 1997, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Award, establishing a 3-year collaboration with the Oakland based Second Start Literacy Project in 1998.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1995, he received the Langston Hughes Medal, awarded by City College of New York. In 1997, he received the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Award, establishing a 3-year collaboration with the Oakland based Second Start Literacy Project in 1998.