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Join Us At The Cleveland Public Library For A Summer Of Reading Anisfield-Wolf
The annual Anisfield-Wolf brown bag lunch series at the Cleveland Public Library takes a twist this year with a deep…
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NewsIsabel Wilkerson And Shonda Rhimes Team Up For FX Series Of “The Warmth Of Other Suns”
Which black actors might best portray Ida Mae Gladney, George Starling and Dr. Robert Pershing Foster, the three real-life protagonists…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Winners Fall On Both Sides Of PEN American Center’s Charlie Hebdo Award Controversy
More than 200 prominent authors—among them Anisfield-Wolf winners Junot Diaz and Kamila Shamsie—have publicly objected to the PEN American Center’s…
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NewsRead Poet Jericho Brown’s Letter To CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Over Baltimore Coverage
“I want to hear you say there should be peaceful protests, not violent protests, in the tradition of Martin Luther…
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NewsFour Poets On How Trauma And Conflict Inform Their Work
Minneapolis, MN — When the poet Ken Chen put together a discussion called “Mapping New Territories: Diasporic Writers from Regions…
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NewsHBO To Bring Marlon James’ Brief History Of Seven Killings To The Screen
The cable network renowned for ambitious storytelling has optioned the rights to Marlon James’ latest novel, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf…
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NewsEducation Trumps Stereotypes: A Cleveland Student’s Perspectives On Islam
by Maria Pineda For centuries, Christians have stereotyped Muslims and I, for most of my 17 years, have stereotyped them…
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NewsToni Morrison Returns With “God Help The Child,” Remains Wickedly Entertaining
At 84, Toni Morrison is full of reflection on her successes and incidents where she might request a do-over. “It’s…
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NewsProfessor Adam Banks On The Link Between Funk And Technology
In a warm lecture hall, University of Kentucky professor Adam Banks bounced and spoke with the cool cadence of a…
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NewsMeet Our 2015 Winners
The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of its 80th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2015 recipients of the only…
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BookHard Love Province
In her fourth volume of poetry, she experiments with quatrains, sonnets, haiku, allegories and elegies in precise words whose effect are brazen, icy yet inflamed.
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BookA Brief History of Seven Killings
An epic chorus-in-the-round, with some 30 narrators, each in various patois, telling their story as it intersects with the Singer, as James calls the reggae legend over these 700 pages.
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BookA Tale of Two Plantations
A scrupulous, revelatory archival investigation of some 2,000 people enslaved across three generations: roughly half on a Jamaican sugar plantation called Mesopotamia and half on Mount Airy, a Virginia tidewater plantation growing tobacco and grain.
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AuthorDavid Brion Davis
Davis’ influence was deep, having changed ‘traditional approaches to intellectual history by embedding ideas in social and political action and institutions.’
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BookThe New Testament
An assistant professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, Brown is celebrated for his intense musicality, lyrical clarity and muscular impact.
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2015 Press Release: Winners Announced
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NewsChang-rae Lee’s Literature Remains A “Sensorial Immersion” For Readers
Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow Lisa Nielson had the honor of introducing Chang-Rae Lee to the packed audience at the 2015 Writers…
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NewsWhy I Teach Feminism At An Urban High School
by Sarah Marcus Like many of my days spent teaching, today feels hard, but important. By 10 a.m. I’ve already…
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NewsActivist and Author Bryan Stevenson Offers Four-Point Prescription For Tackling Injustice
Bryan Stevenson needs no notes. Not for his TED Talk, not for his Daily Show appearance, and not for his…