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VIDEO: Anisfield-Wolf Award Winners Reflect On The Importance Of Talking About Race
August 27, 2012
As we are furiously preparing for our awards ceremony in a few weeks, we found this video, taped for our…
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VIDEO: Walter Mosley On Sacrifices He’s Made In His Writing Career
August 24, 2012
“Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don’t have to give up anything to do it.”…
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VIDEO: What’s Up With Our Nation’s Obsession With President Lincoln?
August 22, 2012
2003 winner Stephen L. Carter grants an interview with Glenn Reynolds, of InstaVision to talk about his latest book, The…
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5 Things You Don’t Know About The Anisfield-Wolf Ceremony
August 20, 2012
Each year we recognize several authors for their contributions to the ongoing conversation about race and diversity in the world….
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VIDEO: Will We See A Big-Screen Adaptation of “The Warmth Of Other Suns”?
August 17, 2012
Interview with Isabel Wilkerson from Mayborn School of Journalism on Vimeo. To say there has been immense interest in Isabel…
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VIDEO: Attending An All-White School
August 15, 2012
We live in a world that is dominated by the impact of race, class and diversity, but conversations about those…
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VIDEO: Is Our Society Less Violent Than Any Other Time In History?
August 13, 2012
The events of the past few months have really been hard on the nation’s psyche. An uptick in mass murders…
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VIDEO: Who Was The Most Important African American Leader Of The 19th Century?
August 10, 2012
Some of the world’s greatest historians—David W. Blight, Henry Louis Gates, Taylor Branch, etc.—are also Anisfield-Wolf award winners. They know…
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Upcoming Events For Our 2012 Winners
August 8, 2012
We are roughly a month away from the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf ceremony and is customary, we are alerting fans to several…
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For Writers, Is What You Do Art Or Commerce?
August 6, 2012
When it comes to the writer’s life, sometimes you have to wonder how much the audience’s expectations play in to…
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Isabel Wilkerson On The Great Migration
August 3, 2012
During a stop to the Tavis Smiley show on PBS, Isabel Wilkerson described her desire to capture stories of the…
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Colson Whitehead Teaches You How To Write – Grab A Pen And Take Notes
August 1, 2012
We love it. We absolutely love it. When we read Colson Whitehead’s “How To Write,” we doubled over in laughter….
