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NewsREVIEW: “The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death” By Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead will be 45 this year, and his latest book invites readers along on a midlife road trip, “The…
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NewsAs Search For Nigeria School Girls Continues, Wole Soyinka’s Urging To Fight For Education Remains Poignant
Last September, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka spoke passionately about the global “contest between barbarism and enlightenment” around educating children. His…
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NewsWill British Period Piece “Belle” Resonate With Moviegoers?
When screenwriter Misan Sagay visited the storied Scone Palace in Scotland, an 18th century painting of a pair of aristocratic…
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NewsNew Poetry Anthology Moves Grown Men To Tears — And That Is Precisely The Point
Anthologies are tricky – and a new one called “Poems That Make Grown Men Cry” might seem like a gimmick….
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News“Half Of A Yellow Sun” Nigerian Release Delayed By Censors
Two weeks after Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chiwetel Ejiofor walked the red carpet at the Lagos premiere of “Half Of…
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News“The Best Book Describing the South” That Most Have Never Read
When Theodore Rosengarten won the National Book Award in 1975 for “All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw,” he…
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NewsDo You Have Your Ticket To The African-American Philanthropy Summit? #GivingHasNoColor
Twenty years ago, Charlotte-based consultant Valaida Fullwood encountered philanthropy close to home. Her 70-year-old aunt, Dora Atlas, right around the…
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NewsEven After Brandeis University Dispute, Advocate Ayaan Hirsi Ali Won’t Be Silenced
The feminist writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali lived out a new chapter of her controversial public life this month when Brandeis…
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NewsFor Janet Mock, Storytelling Serves As Activism For The Transgender Community
In early February, Facebook rolled out 56 new gender identities for user profiles. Selections such as “pangender” and “two-spirit” now…
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NewsA Look Back At The Rwandan Genocide: 20 Years Later, What Have We Learned?
This spring, as Rwanda commemorates the 1994 genocide that extinguished more than a million of its citizens, a nation assesses…
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NewsHenry Louis Gates Jr. Wins Peabody Award For “Many Rivers To Cross” Documentary
Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.— who served as executive producer, host, and writer for “The African-Americans: Many Rivers to Cross”…
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NewsNew Poetry Collection From Kevin Powers Places War’s Aftermath In Verse
“Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting” publishes this week, the first collection of poetry from Anisfield-Wolf fiction winner…
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NewsLibrary Journal Features 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Winners
As our profile begins to grow as a book award, from time to time we like to recognize some of…
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NewsMeet Our 2014 Winners
The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of its 79th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2014 recipients of the only…
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2014 Press Release: Winners Announced
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NewsSimon Schama’s “The Story Of The Jews” Premieres On PBS
Historian Simon Schama is careful not to call his new PBS series the “definitive” look at Jewish history, but by…
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BookMy Promised Land
Encouraged by New Yorker Editor David Remnick, Shavit spent five years writing “My Promised Land” in English and Hebrew simultaneously. It asks basic questions: Why was Israel created? What has it achieved? What went wrong? Will it survive?
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BookThe Big Smoke
A marvelous, nuanced, polyphonic exploration of the life of boxer Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight world champion.
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BookA Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Marra takes his title from a medical dictionary definition of life and his inspiration, in part, from the fact that no previous English language novel was set in a region that has been fertile soil for Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Lermontov and Alexandr Pushkin.
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AuthorGeorge Lamming
I am always feeling terrified of being known; not because they really know you, but simply because their claim to knowledge is a concealed attempt to destroy you.