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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…
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“The Best Book Describing the South” That Most Have Never Read
April 22, 2014
When Theodore Rosengarten won the National Book Award in 1975 for “All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw,” he…
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Do You Have Your Ticket To The African-American Philanthropy Summit? #GivingHasNoColor
April 18, 2014
Twenty years ago, Charlotte-based consultant Valaida Fullwood encountered philanthropy close to home. Her 70-year-old aunt, Dora Atlas, right around the…
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Even After Brandeis University Dispute, Advocate Ayaan Hirsi Ali Won’t Be Silenced
April 16, 2014
The feminist writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali lived out a new chapter of her controversial public life this month when Brandeis…
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For Janet Mock, Storytelling Serves As Activism For The Transgender Community
April 9, 2014
In early February, Facebook rolled out 56 new gender identities for user profiles. Selections such as “pangender” and “two-spirit” now…
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A Look Back At The Rwandan Genocide: 20 Years Later, What Have We Learned?
April 8, 2014
This spring, as Rwanda commemorates the 1994 genocide that extinguished more than a million of its citizens, a nation assesses…
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Wins Peabody Award For “Many Rivers To Cross” Documentary
April 3, 2014
Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.— who served as executive producer, host, and writer for “The African-Americans: Many Rivers to Cross”…
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New Poetry Collection From Kevin Powers Places War’s Aftermath In Verse
April 2, 2014
“Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting” publishes this week, the first collection of poetry from Anisfield-Wolf fiction winner…
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Library Journal Features 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Winners
April 1, 2014
As our profile begins to grow as a book award, from time to time we like to recognize some of…
