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Dancer Pioneer Judith Jamison On Persistence And The Arts: “If The Door Won’t Open, Make Your Own Door”
March 20, 2015
Famed dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison warned a recent audience that she has a tendency to ramble: “I will be…
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Four Things We Learned About Director Ava DuVernay From Her Keynote At SWSW
March 18, 2015
“They’re going to throw me in director’s jail,” director Ava DuVernay remembered thinking before premiering “Selma” at the American Film…
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Ari Shavit’s “My Promised Land” Headed To HBO In New Documentary
March 17, 2015
HBO will turn Ari Shavit’s My Promised Land into a television documentary, CEO and chairman Richard Pleper announced at the…
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Rita Dove’s Love Letter To Toni Morrison At NBCC: “No Words Can Fully Express What You’ve Meant To Me”
March 15, 2015
Poet Rita Dove introduced Toni Morrison—the only living American Nobel recipient in literature—with joy and grace and poetry at the…
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“By Blood” Documentary Explores The Legal Battle Waging Between American Indians And Descendants Of Their Slaves
March 10, 2015
Just who is an American Indian? For hundreds of years, this riddle of identity has vexed the federal government and…
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VIDEO: Arnold Rampersad On The Selected Letters Of Langston Hughes
March 4, 2015
Longtime biographer Arnold Rampersad said his new volume, The Selected Letters of Langston Hughes, reveals a “deeper, more complicated” man than…
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Transgender Activists Push For Equality At City Club Forum
February 26, 2015
An introspective, respectful and sold-out City Club audience gathered to consider the long march to equality for transgender people in…
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How Books@Work Program Allowed Readers To See Themselves In Isabel Wilkerson’s “The Warmth Of Other Suns”
February 18, 2015
by Rachel Burstein Our experience of a book can be changed—and enriched—when we read it alongside people who are different…
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Researcher Richard Rothstein Makes Compelling Push To Address Modern Segregation At City Club Of Cleveland
February 17, 2015
In a popular U.S. high school history textbook, The Americans, there is only one sentence—in passive voice—on housing discrimination among…
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Activist Bryan Stevenson Leads “Let’s Talk About Injustice” Community Forum March 19
February 13, 2015
Bryan Stevenson—campaigner against mass incarceration and author of a new report linking the ubiquity of lynching in the American South…
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How To Improve Diversity In Children’s Literature – One Book At A Time
February 6, 2015
People of color make up close to 40 percent of the current U.S. population, so what would you do about…
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Historian Sarah Lewis On Creativity And Failure At Case Western Reserve University
February 5, 2015
August Wilson, winner of an Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement award in 2005, used to begin writing his plays on napkins to…
