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NewsDancer Pioneer Judith Jamison On Persistence And The Arts: “If The Door Won’t Open, Make Your Own Door”
Famed dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison warned a recent audience that she has a tendency to ramble: “I will be…
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NewsFour Things We Learned About Director Ava DuVernay From Her Keynote At SWSW
“They’re going to throw me in director’s jail,” director Ava DuVernay remembered thinking before premiering “Selma” at the American Film…
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NewsAri Shavit’s “My Promised Land” Headed To HBO In New Documentary
HBO will turn Ari Shavit’s My Promised Land into a television documentary, CEO and chairman Richard Pleper announced at the…
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NewsRita Dove’s Love Letter To Toni Morrison At NBCC: “No Words Can Fully Express What You’ve Meant To Me”
Poet Rita Dove introduced Toni Morrison—the only living American Nobel recipient in literature—with joy and grace and poetry at the…
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News“By Blood” Documentary Explores The Legal Battle Waging Between American Indians And Descendants Of Their Slaves
Just who is an American Indian? For hundreds of years, this riddle of identity has vexed the federal government and…
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NewsVIDEO: Arnold Rampersad On The Selected Letters Of Langston Hughes
Longtime biographer Arnold Rampersad said his new volume, The Selected Letters of Langston Hughes, reveals a “deeper, more complicated” man than…
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NewsTransgender Activists Push For Equality At City Club Forum
An introspective, respectful and sold-out City Club audience gathered to consider the long march to equality for transgender people in…
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NewsHow Books@Work Program Allowed Readers To See Themselves In Isabel Wilkerson’s “The Warmth Of Other Suns”
by Rachel Burstein Our experience of a book can be changed—and enriched—when we read it alongside people who are different…
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NewsResearcher Richard Rothstein Makes Compelling Push To Address Modern Segregation At City Club Of Cleveland
In a popular U.S. high school history textbook, The Americans, there is only one sentence—in passive voice—on housing discrimination among…
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NewsActivist Bryan Stevenson Leads “Let’s Talk About Injustice” Community Forum March 19
Bryan Stevenson—campaigner against mass incarceration and author of a new report linking the ubiquity of lynching in the American South…
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NewsHow To Improve Diversity In Children’s Literature – One Book At A Time
People of color make up close to 40 percent of the current U.S. population, so what would you do about…
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NewsHistorian Sarah Lewis On Creativity And Failure At Case Western Reserve University
August Wilson, winner of an Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement award in 2005, used to begin writing his plays on napkins to…
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NewsREVIEW: John Lewis Continues His “March,” Offers Handbook For Nonviolent Demonstrations
The second installment in March, Rep. John Lewis’ acclaimed graphic memoir trilogy on the civil rights movement, picks up where the…
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NewsCase Western Reserve University Adding Second Anisfield-Wolf Scholar To Faculty
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards will expand its reach in 2015 with the addition of a second scholar at Case Western…
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NewsJournalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault On The Armor She Needed To Survive As A Black Woman In The South
“I am not a person preoccupied by race,” said the groundbreaking journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, instantly believable even in the paradox…
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NewsNew Documentary Uncovers The Worst Racial Violence In United States History
“Why are we addicted to hate in America?” That was the simple, provocative question of Rachel Lyon, as she introduced her…
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NewsComedian W. Kamau Bell Single-Handedly Ends Racism In Comedic Set At John Carroll University
“When we talk about race, we tend to use words that make us comfortable,” comedian W. Kamau Bell told a…
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NewsCleveland Teens Add Their Voices To Conversation On Racism, Injustice
Shakyra Diaz, policy manager for the ACLU of Ohio, asked everyone in a crowded meeting hall who knew someone with…
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NewsREVIEW: “The Sense of Style” by Steven Pinker
by Terry Pederson If you dreaded English class and still stumble over there, their and they’re, then Steven Pinker’s “The…
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NewsESSENCE Magazine Goes Dark For Historic “Black Lives Matter” Issue
For the first time in its 45-year history, Essence magazine will not use a cover model. Instead, the African-American publication…