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When Maya Met Toni: The 40-Year-Friendship Between Two Literary Giants
June 5, 2014
Anisfield-Wolf winner Toni Morrison found herself on stage at the Hay Festival in Wales May 28, the same day her…
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Final Fundraising Push For First Full-Length Lorraine Hansberry Documentary
June 4, 2014
The world almost lost Lorraine Hansberry’s most famous work, A Raisin in the Sun, before it ripened. In a moment of frustration,…
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REVIEW: “On Such A Full Sea” By Chang-Rae Lee
May 29, 2014
Fourteen years after he won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his haunting second novel, “A Gesture Life,” Chang-Rae Lee delivers…
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The Article On Race Every American Should Read
May 28, 2014
When writer Ta-Nehisi Coates visited Cleveland on a frigid February morning earlier this year, he was blunt when asked about America’s…
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Inspiration On The Page: Norman A. Sugarman Award Honors Outstanding Children’s Literature
May 26, 2014
A standard picture book contains 36 unnumbered pages. “Monsieur Marceau” follows the pattern, but manages a wondrous, supple depiction of…
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VIDEO: Walter Mosley Explains His Writing Regimen, Career Struggles, And Why “There No Such Thing As White People”
May 13, 2014
Writer and radio host Michael Eric Dyson posed a simple question to Walter Mosley midway through their Schomburg Center for…
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Talks Education, Fundraising And Career Highlights At African-American Philanthropy Summit
May 12, 2014
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. spent a sunny April Saturday in Cleveland speaking frankly about money and race and aspiration….
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REVIEW: “The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death” By Colson Whitehead
May 6, 2014
Colson Whitehead will be 45 this year, and his latest book invites readers along on a midlife road trip, “The…
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As Search For Nigeria School Girls Continues, Wole Soyinka’s Urging To Fight For Education Remains Poignant
May 5, 2014
Last September, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka spoke passionately about the global “contest between barbarism and enlightenment” around educating children. His…
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Will British Period Piece “Belle” Resonate With Moviegoers?
May 2, 2014
When screenwriter Misan Sagay visited the storied Scone Palace in Scotland, an 18th century painting of a pair of aristocratic…
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New Poetry Anthology Moves Grown Men To Tears — And That Is Precisely The Point
May 1, 2014
Anthologies are tricky – and a new one called “Poems That Make Grown Men Cry” might seem like a gimmick….
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“Half Of A Yellow Sun” Nigerian Release Delayed By Censors
April 28, 2014
Two weeks after Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chiwetel Ejiofor walked the red carpet at the Lagos premiere of “Half Of…
