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Reflecting On My Immigrant Experience Through Anisfield-Wolf Award Winning Books
August 22, 2019
For a few days in June, I sat down in an old building at Case Western Reserve University among 20 scholars, activists and artists to unpack the new class of books honored by the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. I spoke of the immigrant experience, of entering this country as an adult in 1998, with only some […] Read More → -
REVIEW: Sarah M. Broom Brings New Orleans To Life With “The Yellow House”
August 14, 2019
The typical story set in New Orleans begins and ends somewhere in the French Quarter, but Sarah M. Broom’s meaty new memoir “The Yellow House” stretches our attention seven miles east, to the neighborhood where she and thousands of others live beyond the glitz of the city’s most famous district. Broken into four movements spanning […] Read More → -
N. Scott Momaday Honored With Dayton Literary Peace Prize
July 22, 2019
At 85, N. Scott Momaday – considered the dean of Native American literature – is attracting renewed accolades for his life’s work. In 2018, he won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and entered the National Native American Hall of Fame. In May, he received the Ken Burns American Heritage Prize and this November will be feted […] Read More → -
The Free Black Women’s Library Is A National Movement Uplifting Black Female Authors
July 21, 2019
In 2015, Brooklyn, New York-based artist OlaRonke Akinmowo lugged 100 books — all written by black women — to a brownstone stoop and launched the uncertain beginnings of her newest project, the Free Black Women’s Library. Dressed in a black tank top and gold leggings, Akinmowo danced barefoot in front of her collection “in honor […] Read More →
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