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NewsIn Jacqueline Woodson’s World, The Hard Conversations Come Easy
Karen R. Long contributed to the reporting. Every evening in her four-story Brooklyn townhouse, author Jacqueline Woodson and her partner…
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NewsA Literary President: Obama Reflects On The Books That Gave Him Stamina And Resolve
Late at night and through eight grueling years, literature helped sustain the outgoing president of the United States. In a…
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News“Hidden Figures” Is Getting A Lot Of Hollywood Buzz, But Don’t Forget About The Book
Type “scientist” into Google and what images do you find? As author Margot Lee Shetterly would describe it, the results are…
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News“Racism Does Not Die Easily”: Reflections On Parallels Between The Japanese And Muslim Experience In America
by Matthew Hashiguchi, documentary filmmaker Over the past year, I’ve been asked many times about the correlation between Japanese Americans…
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NewsLet These Books — From Poetry To The Political — Kick Off Your 2017 Reading List
How does one structure a year in reading? The New York Times published the answers of 47 writers and artists…
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NewsWinners Of 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Bring Courage To Literature
Marilynne Robinson – she of the incandescent, Pulitzer-winning prose – wasn’t thinking about her celebrated fiction last month, even though…
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NewsTavis Smiley Brings “Courting Justice” To Cleveland
Cross the American criminal justice system, and – if you are unlucky — prepare for crushing debt. Here are…
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NewsHistorian Michael Twitty Sets “A Place At The Table,” Serves Up A Hearty Helping Of Culinary Justice
“Call soul food what it is: the edible scripture of the Black aesthetic, the culinary answer to jazz, memory food…
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News“This Is Unreal”: Rep. John Lewis’ Acceptance Speech At 2016 National Book Awards
A visibly emotional John Lewis took to the podium at the 2016 National Book Awards to accept this year’s prize for…
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NewsREVIEW: “Delicious Foods” Makes For A Very Satisfying Literary Meal
by Charles Ellenbogen Eddie has just escaped from the farm; Eddie also has no hands. Those are among the first…
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NewsWatch Henry Louis Gates’ New Series, “Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise”
What if Martin Luther King Jr woke up and asked, “What happened since I’ve been gone?” The answer is the…
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News“An Evening With Rita Dove & Friends” Captures 30 Years Of The Poet’s Greatest Verses
Each time poet and Akron native Rita Dove speaks in Northeast Ohio, she begins with an acknowledgement of home. Her…
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NewsAuthor David Livingstone Smith Speaks On Combating Dehumanization At CWRU
Philosopher David Livingstone Smith gave a lively preview of “Making Monsters: The Uncanny Powers of Dehumanization,” his forthcoming book, for…
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NewsCatch An Encore Screening Of Cleveland International Film Festival Hit, “Romeo Is Bleeding”
The gritty documentary “Romeo is Bleeding” took home the top audience choice prize at this year’s Cleveland International Film Festival….
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NewsActivist Bree Newsome On “Tearing Hatred From The Sky” And The Fight For Sustainable Social Justice Movements
Bree Newsome — the activist who brought down the Confederate flag flying outside the Columbia, S.C. capitol building in 2015 —…
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NewsREVIEW: Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout” Deserves The Man Booker Prize And Then Some
Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout” took home the Man Booker Prize for 2016, making him the first U.S. author to win…
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NewsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie Salutes First Lady Michelle Obama In New York Times Style Magazine
The editors of the New York Times Style magazine invited four woman to write letters of appreciation to Michelle Obama…
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NewsAuthor And Dancer Brian Seibert In Performance With Oberlin Student Chandler Browne
For the last event of the inaugural Cleveland Book Week, Brian Seibert rolled up his cuffs and gave the audience…
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NewsSociologist Orlando Patterson On African-Americans’ Profound Cultural Influence: “America Is Indelibly Blackish”
Orlando Patterson, the public intellectual and Harvard University sociologist, made a deep impression on his audiences in Cleveland in September….