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Rita Dove Lauded In New Documentary On Her Formative Years
February 11, 2014
Filmmaker Eduardo Montes-Bradley knew he wanted to make a film on Rita Dove. So the director of documentaries on former NAACP…
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Debating The Best Book Lists: Does Amazon’s “100 Books To Read In A Lifetime” Get It Right?
February 7, 2014
Wither the best book list? Inherently inane and crazy-making, these are also undeniably good conversation starters. Amazon has posted the…
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Black Male Achievement Takes Center Stage In New Documentary, “American Promise”
When 13-year-old Idris Brewster, subject of the thought-provoking documentary “American Promise,” is invited to a classmate’s bat mitzvah, he says…
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The Race Card Project Digs For The Truth About Race In America
February 5, 2014
Looking out over the multiracial crowd of more than 600 assembled at the University of Akron’s E.J. Thomas Hall, journalist…
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Michelle Alexander On The Perils Of Mass Incarceration In The U.S.
January 31, 2014
In her influential best-seller, “The New Jim Crow,” law professor Michelle Alexander dissects the devastating racial consequences of “locking up…
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Vintage Black Glamour Blog Shows Flashier Side Of African-American History
January 30, 2014
Ask Nichelle Gainer why she decided to create Vintage Black Glamour, and her answer is simple: She saw a need….
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Wil Haygood Tells CWRU The Story Behind “The Butler” During Martin Luther King Convocation
January 28, 2014
Washington Post reporter Wil Haygood stood in the pulpit at the Amasa Stone Chapel on the Case Western Reserve University…
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Connecting King And Soyinka: Some Things Were Meant To Be Looked At Differently
January 22, 2014
Kerrick Woyshner, 18, was a scholar in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf class, pioneered by Dr. Lisa Nielson at Case Western…
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Rare Recording Of Martin Luther King Jr’s Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Speech
January 20, 2014
Late last year, the New York State Museum in Albany received an ordinary package – reel-to-reel tapes donated by the…
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Reflections On Far From The Tree: Quiet, Beautiful and Different Children
January 17, 2014
Arjun Gopinath, 17, participated in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf class, pioneered by Dr. Lisa Nielson at Case Western Reserve University. …
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Shutting Down The School-to-Prison Pipeline
January 16, 2014
When Robert Runcie became the new superintendent for Broward County schools, a populous part of metropolitan Miami, Fla., he knew…
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What Race Means To Me: Being Chinese In A White America
January 9, 2014
Andrea Lau, 18, was a student scholar this past fall in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf course, pioneered by Dr. Lisa…
