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News“The Most Dangerous Animal”: A Short Film Based Off David Livingstone Smith
Filmmaker Al Sutton was inspired by our 2012 award winner David Livingstone Smith‘s 2007 book, The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature…
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NewsVIDEO: Edwidge Danticat Explains What It Means To Be An Immigrant Artist
“There’s no one writing in the English language today who more precisely and passionately articulates the exile’s experience than Edwidge…
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NewsVIDEO: Zadie Smith Reads The Opening Lines Of Her Latest Book, “NW”
Have we worn you down? Has our incessant posting about Zadie Smith’s latest novel sparked just enough curiosity for you to…
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Listen As Esi Edugyan, David Livingstone Smith, David W. Blight And Arnold Rampersad Discuss Race And Diversity
We won’t spend too much time on an introduction today; let’s get right to the meaty stuff. Recently, our 2012…
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NewsVIDEO: Jamaica Kindcaid Gives ’12 Commencement Address At Grinnell College
1997 winner Jamaica Kincaid gives a commencement address at Grinnell College with some advice that might not be so common….
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NewsVIDEO: Junot Diaz On His Book, “This Is How You Lose Her”
2008 winner Junot Diaz has his fans on the edge of their seats as they wait for his latest book,…
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NewsRead The First Two Chapters Of Zadie Smith’s Latest Novel, NW, Before It Hits Stores
Penguin Press, Zadie Smith’s publisher, is offering readers a sneak peek at her latest novel over on its Facebook page….
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NewsVIDEO: Anisfield-Wolf Award Winners Reflect On The Importance Of Talking About Race
As we are furiously preparing for our awards ceremony in a few weeks, we found this video, taped for our…
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NewsVIDEO: Walter Mosley On Sacrifices He’s Made In His Writing Career
“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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NewsVIDEO: What’s Up With Our Nation’s Obsession With President Lincoln?
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
Each year we recognize several authors for their contributions to the ongoing conversation about race and diversity in the world….
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NewsVIDEO: Will We See A Big-Screen Adaptation of “The Warmth Of Other Suns”?
Interview with Isabel Wilkerson from Mayborn School of Journalism on Vimeo. To say there has been immense interest in Isabel…
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NewsVIDEO: Attending An All-White School
We live in a world that is dominated by the impact of race, class and diversity, but conversations about those…
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NewsVIDEO: Is Our Society Less Violent Than Any Other Time In History?
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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NewsVIDEO: Who Was The Most Important African American Leader Of The 19th Century?
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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NewsUpcoming Events For Our 2012 Winners
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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NewsFor Writers, Is What You Do Art Or Commerce?
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
During a stop to the Tavis Smiley show on PBS, Isabel Wilkerson described her desire to capture stories of the…