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Several years ago, Clevelander Anne Trubek attended the Anisfield-Wolf ceremony with an interest in hearing that year’s crop of winners…

Tonight, our spotlight shined on 10-year-old Gwyneth Wilde, a fifth-grader at the Falcon Academy of Creative Arts in Mogadore. Gwyneth…

Three times a week, a group of strangers gathers in the basement of an independent New York City bookstore. Their…

Photographer and artist Carrie Mae Weems paused in front of more than 600 rapt listeners in late August to take…

Anisfield-Wolf juror Rita Dove is 61 today.  Her father, chemist Ray Dove, took her and her brother from Akron, Ohio,…

The numbers are sobering: African American babies are twice as likely to die before their first birthday than white infants….

“I defy gravity/I am stronger than any force/I am Brooklyn” This isn’t a verse from one of Jay Z’s latest…

Meet our esteemed manager, Karen R. Long, at the Cleveland Public Library’s Brown Bag Book Club on Wednesday, August 21…

by Kathleen Cerveny   My Favorite Warlord, by Eugene Gloria, is the recipient of the 2013 Anisfield Wolf Book Award for…

“In a time that spends so many words and dollars upon conflict, it is encouraging to be noticed for having…

Thanks to generous supporters on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter, anti-racism activist Tim Wise has raised more than $41,000 for a…

by Rita Dove  On Trayvon Martin, today I find myself at a loss for words — or rather, I used…

After months of little publicity, the official trailer for “Half Of A Yellow Sun” has been released, weeks ahead of…

Contrary to its pop culture rep as a hipster haven, Brooklyn has the unpleasant distinction of being the bloodiest of…

This August 14, the graduate program at Case Western Reserve University for a Masters of Finance will welcome 60 new…