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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…
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REVIEW: “The Education of Kevin Powell”
November 23, 2015
Violence permeates nearly every page of “The Education of Kevin Powell.” Neighborhood boys, relatives, authority figures and even the author…
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Bringing Maya Angelou’s Poetry To Single Moms In Cleveland
November 16, 2015
One of my favorite Maya Angelou quotes—one I love so much that I gave all my friends an illustrated copy…
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The Incredible Staying Power Of James McBride’s “The Color of Water”
November 5, 2015
by Gail Arnoff, adjunct professor, John Carroll University The first time I read The Color of Water, I was deep…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates On Dismantling White Supremacy: “Any Definition Of Race Always Depends Upon Power”
November 4, 2015
Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates is very clear on his role: Dig for the truth and get out of the way. “If…
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Author Daniel Mendelsohn On Writing And Discovering The Holocaust Anew
October 29, 2015
Cultural critic Daniel Mendelsohn paused in Cleveland this October before his written remarks to take in the stunning, restored Temple-Tifereth…
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Poet Eugene Gloria Brings Discussion On Identity To Hiram College
October 21, 2015
Tom Pantic, a junior at Hiram College in Ohio, wanted to know how poet Eugene Gloria felt about being put…
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REVIEW: “A Ballerina’s Tale: The Incredible Rise Of Misty Copeland”
October 15, 2015
“A Ballerina’s Tale” is a delightfully intimate portrait of Misty Copeland—full of close-ups, uncomfortable silence, and peeks behind the curtain…
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WATCH: Highlights From Our 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Ceremony
October 8, 2015
This past September, Jericho Brown, Marlon James, Marilyn Chin and Richard S. Dunn accepted their 2015 Anisfield-Wolf awards at a…
