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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…
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“CommUniversity” – Bringing African-American Studies To The Masses
Affordable classes on African-American topics for anyone who wants to take them — that’s the gist of Professor Zachery Williams’…
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This Artist Spent An Entire Year Capturing The Beauty and Essence Of Powerful Women
January 3, 2014
Unlike most of us, illustrator Lisa Congdon kept her 2013 resolution, for the entire year. We—and the internet—are better for it. …
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Remembering Two Literary Heavyweights The World Lost In 2013
January 2, 2014
Almost 18 years ago in The New Yorker, Anisfield-Wolf Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. profiled the intellectual and novelist…
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An Unorthodox Writing Gift For Detroit
December 20, 2013
Two years ago, writers Toby Barlow and Sarah Cox got together to discuss Detroit. Negative headlines pounded the city’s reputation,…
