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NewsActivism In Your Own Backyard: How To Spark Change Where You Live
Of the five prompts for the 2016 Martin Luther King essay contest, Case Western Reserve University senior Shadi Admadmehrabi selected…
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News“Black-ish” Deftly Mixes Hope and Reality in Police Brutality Episode
In its second season, ABC’s “Black-ish” has hit its stride. Now comes the best evidence of its ability to create…
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NewsMedia Critic Eric Deggans Talks #OscarsSoWhite, Beyonce And Political Correctness
What to do when Fox News host Bill O’Reilly calls you out on his show, labeling you a “race-baiter”? If…
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NewsProfessor Michelle Martin Offers “African American Children’s Literature as a Genre of Resistance”
Almost a year before Matt de la Pena won the latest Newbery Medal—the highest honor in children’s literature—he told National…
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News[Must Read] Jericho Brown On Langston Hughes’ Poem “Suicide’s Note”
When Jericho Brown won his Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, he spoke of his awe of Langston Hughes, calling his discovery of…
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NewsREVIEW: Alison Kinney’s “Hood” Offers Lesson On The Garment That Made Headlines
In March 2012, U.S. Representative Bobby Rush stood on the House floor dressed in a gray hooded sweatshirt, one month…
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News[VIDEO] Marlon James: We All Have A Stake In Ending Racism
Marlon James begins his 2-minute video on racism with the following question: “Are you ‘non’ or are you ‘anti’?” Published…
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News[Roundup] Best Fiction And Nonfiction Books Of 2015
As the chair of the National Book Critics Circle‘s nonfiction committee, our awards manager Karen R. Long had a steady…
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NewsEVENT: “Cleveland In Print” Examines Northeast Ohio Through Toni Morrison, Langston Hughes And Harvey Pekar
Come learn more about the Cleveland that helped shape Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Harvey Pekar. Teaching Cleveland has…
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News[Call For Submissions] 2016 MLK Essay Contest
In a year characterized by racial urgency, the local Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest is expanding to accept entries…
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NewsWhen Children Feel Invisible: Joesiah Poulson at the 80th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
by Ali McClain The beginning movements of this essay began with a complex question: Which author’s reading from the 80th…
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[In Their Words] Examining The Runaway Success Of A Brief History Of Seven Killings
by Dr. Anand Bhat In 2007, when I asked my driver in Caracas if evangelical Christianity had been making its…
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NewsRoxane Gay On Being A Public Intellectual In The Age Of Social Media
Twitter was made for pithy public intellectuals like Roxane Gay. Nearly 100,000 people follow the author and professor for her…
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NewsProfessor Kenneth Warren Visits Cleveland For Talk On Race, Literature, And #BlackLivesMatter
Kenneth Warren, a University of Chicago literature professor, asked a gathering of students and faculty in Cleveland this fall to…
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NewsREVIEW: “The Education of Kevin Powell”
Violence permeates nearly every page of “The Education of Kevin Powell.” Neighborhood boys, relatives, authority figures and even the author…
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NewsBringing Maya Angelou’s Poetry To Single Moms In Cleveland
One of my favorite Maya Angelou quotes—one I love so much that I gave all my friends an illustrated copy…
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The Incredible Staying Power Of James McBride’s “The Color of Water”
by Gail Arnoff, adjunct professor, John Carroll University The first time I read The Color of Water, I was deep…
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NewsTa-Nehisi Coates On Dismantling White Supremacy: “Any Definition Of Race Always Depends Upon Power”
Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates is very clear on his role: Dig for the truth and get out of the way. “If…
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NewsAuthor Daniel Mendelsohn On Writing And Discovering The Holocaust Anew
Cultural critic Daniel Mendelsohn paused in Cleveland this October before his written remarks to take in the stunning, restored Temple-Tifereth…
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NewsPoet Eugene Gloria Brings Discussion On Identity To Hiram College
Tom Pantic, a junior at Hiram College in Ohio, wanted to know how poet Eugene Gloria felt about being put…