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#NPRBlacksInTech Series Explores Racial Divide In Tech Industry
December 2, 2013
African-American tech insiders will talk about their work stories in a new series on National Public Radio’s Tell Me More. From Dec….
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Poet Joshua Bennett Offers Electric Spoken Word Experience At Kent State University
November 22, 2013
Poet Joshua Bennett adjusted the mic stand at Kent State University. “I was raised Baptist,” he warned the audience in…
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Whoopi Goldberg’s Directorial Debut Honors Moms Mabley
November 18, 2013
When Whoopi Goldberg made plans to revive her one-woman Broadway show on Moms Mabley, she ran into a problem: few…
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalists Raise Awareness Of Women’s Oppression
November 16, 2013
“We have all won the lottery of life,” Sheryl WuDunn said she criss-crossed the stage during her recent appearance at…
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Why Can’t Superheroes Be Muslim?
November 11, 2013
Marvel Comics, home to some of the world’s most recognizable superheroes, has widened diversity among its trademark characters with the…
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“Your Words Have Changed My Life”: Dayton Literary Peace Prize Ceremony Salutes Literary Heavyweights
November 8, 2013
The potency of literature went on vivid display in early November when readers gathered around the writers who won this…
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Author Kirk W. Johnson On The Fight To Help Iraqi Allies Left Behind
November 7, 2013
At 32, Kirk W. Johnson is a veteran of a particularly harrowing kind of politics. A soft-spoken and reluctant activist,…
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VIDEO: Junot Diaz On Winning An Anisfield-Wolf Award For “The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao”
November 6, 2013
Fresh off the paperback release of his newest work, This is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz swung by Cleveland…
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Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Professor Debunks Myths About The Harem
November 4, 2013
In the harem, women did not go naked. Nor did they wear flimsy, see-through harem pants. Despite the panting Western…
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VIDEO: Wole Soyinka On Winning A Lifetime Achievement Award
November 1, 2013
At the conclusion of this year’s ceremony, a number of Nigerians in attendance approached our lifetime achievement winner Wole Soyinka,…
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VIDEO: A. Van Jordan On Winning An Anisfield-Wolf Award
October 30, 2013
A. Van Jordan made an October appearance at Market Garden Brewery’s Brews & Prose event, sharing snippets from his latest work, “The…
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Langston Hughes’ Boyhood Home Undergoes Complete Renovation In Cleveland
October 28, 2013
The wood-frame Cleveland house where Langston Hughes once scribbled teenaged insights is back from the brink. Four years ago its…
