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Media Critic Eric Deggans Talks #OscarsSoWhite, Beyonce And Political Correctness
February 24, 2016
What to do when Fox News host Bill O’Reilly calls you out on his show, labeling you a “race-baiter”? If…
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Professor Michelle Martin Offers “African American Children’s Literature as a Genre of Resistance”
February 23, 2016
Almost a year before Matt de la Pena won the latest Newbery Medal—the highest honor in children’s literature—he told National…
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[Must Read] Jericho Brown On Langston Hughes’ Poem “Suicide’s Note”
February 2, 2016
When Jericho Brown won his Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, he spoke of his awe of Langston Hughes, calling his discovery of…
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REVIEW: Alison Kinney’s “Hood” Offers Lesson On The Garment That Made Headlines
January 25, 2016
In March 2012, U.S. Representative Bobby Rush stood on the House floor dressed in a gray hooded sweatshirt, one month…
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[VIDEO] Marlon James: We All Have A Stake In Ending Racism
January 20, 2016
Marlon James begins his 2-minute video on racism with the following question: “Are you ‘non’ or are you ‘anti’?” Published…
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[Roundup] Best Fiction And Nonfiction Books Of 2015
January 14, 2016
As the chair of the National Book Critics Circle‘s nonfiction committee, our awards manager Karen R. Long had a steady…
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EVENT: “Cleveland In Print” Examines Northeast Ohio Through Toni Morrison, Langston Hughes And Harvey Pekar
January 8, 2016
Come learn more about the Cleveland that helped shape Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Harvey Pekar. Teaching Cleveland has…
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[Call For Submissions] 2016 MLK Essay Contest
December 18, 2015
In a year characterized by racial urgency, the local Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest is expanding to accept entries…
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When Children Feel Invisible: Joesiah Poulson at the 80th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
December 16, 2015
by Ali McClain The beginning movements of this essay began with a complex question: Which author’s reading from the 80th…
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[In Their Words] Examining The Runaway Success Of A Brief History Of Seven Killings
December 14, 2015
by Dr. Anand Bhat In 2007, when I asked my driver in Caracas if evangelical Christianity had been making its…
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Roxane Gay On Being A Public Intellectual In The Age Of Social Media
December 3, 2015
Twitter was made for pithy public intellectuals like Roxane Gay. Nearly 100,000 people follow the author and professor for her…
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Professor Kenneth Warren Visits Cleveland For Talk On Race, Literature, And #BlackLivesMatter
November 30, 2015
Kenneth Warren, a University of Chicago literature professor, asked a gathering of students and faculty in Cleveland this fall to…
