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NewsRuby Dee and Ossie Davis’ Grandson To Pay Tribute To Legendary Actors In New Documentary
Actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis met in 1946 in New York City when they were both cast in “Jeb,”…
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NewsHow To Teach College Students About Race And Identity: Let Them Lead The Way
By Lisa Nielson, Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow Lisa Nielson is the Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. She has…
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NewsWhen Maya Met Toni: The 40-Year-Friendship Between Two Literary Giants
Anisfield-Wolf winner Toni Morrison found herself on stage at the Hay Festival in Wales May 28, the same day her…
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NewsFinal Fundraising Push For First Full-Length Lorraine Hansberry Documentary
The world almost lost Lorraine Hansberry’s most famous work, A Raisin in the Sun, before it ripened. In a moment of frustration,…
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NewsREVIEW: “On Such A Full Sea” By Chang-Rae Lee
Fourteen years after he won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his haunting second novel, “A Gesture Life,” Chang-Rae Lee delivers…
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NewsThe Article On Race Every American Should Read
When writer Ta-Nehisi Coates visited Cleveland on a frigid February morning earlier this year, he was blunt when asked about America’s…
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NewsInspiration On The Page: Norman A. Sugarman Award Honors Outstanding Children’s Literature
A standard picture book contains 36 unnumbered pages. “Monsieur Marceau” follows the pattern, but manages a wondrous, supple depiction of…
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NewsVIDEO: Walter Mosley Explains His Writing Regimen, Career Struggles, And Why “There No Such Thing As White People”
Writer and radio host Michael Eric Dyson posed a simple question to Walter Mosley midway through their Schomburg Center for…
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NewsHenry Louis Gates Jr. Talks Education, Fundraising And Career Highlights At African-American Philanthropy Summit
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. spent a sunny April Saturday in Cleveland speaking frankly about money and race and aspiration….
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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”…