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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…
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REVIEW: John Lewis Continues His “March,” Offers Handbook For Nonviolent Demonstrations
February 3, 2015
The second installment in March, Rep. John Lewis’ acclaimed graphic memoir trilogy on the civil rights movement, picks up where the…
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Case Western Reserve University Adding Second Anisfield-Wolf Scholar To Faculty
January 30, 2015
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards will expand its reach in 2015 with the addition of a second scholar at Case Western…
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Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault On The Armor She Needed To Survive As A Black Woman In The South
January 29, 2015
“I am not a person preoccupied by race,” said the groundbreaking journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, instantly believable even in the paradox…
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New Documentary Uncovers The Worst Racial Violence In United States History
January 23, 2015
“Why are we addicted to hate in America?” That was the simple, provocative question of Rachel Lyon, as she introduced her…
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Comedian W. Kamau Bell Single-Handedly Ends Racism In Comedic Set At John Carroll University
January 15, 2015
“When we talk about race, we tend to use words that make us comfortable,” comedian W. Kamau Bell told a…
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Cleveland Teens Add Their Voices To Conversation On Racism, Injustice
Shakyra Diaz, policy manager for the ACLU of Ohio, asked everyone in a crowded meeting hall who knew someone with…
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REVIEW: “The Sense of Style” by Steven Pinker
January 8, 2015
by Terry Pederson If you dreaded English class and still stumble over there, their and they’re, then Steven Pinker’s “The…
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ESSENCE Magazine Goes Dark For Historic “Black Lives Matter” Issue
January 6, 2015
For the first time in its 45-year history, Essence magazine will not use a cover model. Instead, the African-American publication…
