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Congressman John Lewis Publishes Graphic Novel Of Civil Rights Movement
June 7, 2013
“Some of you may be asking: ‘Hey, John Lewis, why are you trying to write a comic book?’” said the…
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Lorraine Hansberry Biopic In Development
June 3, 2013
Films on Princess Diana, Steve Jobs, and Jimi Hendrix should make 2013 a rich year for biopics. An intriguing new…
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REVIEW: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Soars With “Americanah”
May 28, 2013
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Knopf, 477 pp., $26.95 Hair asserts itself on the first page of “Americanah,” a knowing, prickly…
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“Nollywood” Brings Adaptation of Adichie’s “Half of a Yellow Sun”
May 24, 2013
If you can’t find the art you want, make it yourself. That was famously the mindset of Jay-Z, when the…
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Rita Dove’s 2013 Emory University Commencement Address
May 22, 2013
Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Rita Dove delivered the 2013 commencement address to the graduates of…
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Rare Slave Cabin To Become Crown Jewel Of New African American History Museum
May 20, 2013
Where can one find Nat Turner’s Bible, Emmet Till’s coffin and Harriet Tubman’s shawl? Answer: the Smithsonian National Museum of…
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“Geography Of Hate” Map Shows Where Most Hateful Tweeters Lurk
May 17, 2013
Students at Humboldt State University in northern California analyzed more than 11 months of Twitter data to locate the biggest…
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New PBS Series Spans 500 Years Of African-American History
May 15, 2013
Anisfield-Wolf jury chair Henry Louise Gates Jr. has been busy the past few months, filming episodes of his new PBS…
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Easy Rawlins Returns In Walter Mosley’s Latest Thriller
May 13, 2013
Anisfield-Wolf winner Walter Mosley gave his readers a true cliff hanger in his last Easy Rawlins book, 2007’s Blonde Faith….
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Advocacy Organization Pushes For “Mother’s Day Our Way”
May 10, 2013
Reacting to the blah, monochromatic nature of typical of Mother’s Day cards, Strong Families, an Alturas, California policy group, launched…
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New Film Recovers The Story Of Classical Music’s Forgotten Black Virtuoso
May 8, 2013
At age 2, Joshua Coyne was removed from his Kansas City home with broken legs and hips. His foster mother…
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VIDEO: Watch Andrew Solomon’s TEDMED Talk On Illness Versus Identity
May 6, 2013
Under the slogan “ideas worth spreading,” the annual TED conferences began in 1990, and have showcased a clutch of Anisfield-Wolf…
