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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…
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VIDEO: 2013 Winner Eugene Gloria On Winning The 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Award For Poetry
October 23, 2013
Eugene Gloria‘s My Favorite Warlord earned praise from the Anisfield-Wolf jury for his “vivid and striking” work examining masculinity, identity, and…
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New PBS Series, “Many Rivers To Cross,” Explores The Depth Of African-American History
October 21, 2013
If you follow Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Twitter or Facebook, you are probably already privy to the bevy of heavy…
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Stephen L. Carter Talks Civility In Politics At PlayhouseSquare
October 18, 2013
As guests began to trickle in to the Ohio Theater at Playhouse Square, an older woman surveyed the crowd and…
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Junot Diaz Ponders Identity And Passion For Writing At Cleveland State University Keynote
October 16, 2013
Junot Diaz did not dress up for his talk. He wore black jeans, worn boots and his white shirttails out…
