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NewsREAD: Adrian Matejka’s New Jean-Michel Basquiat-Inspired Poem, “& Later,”
Take a look at Jean-Michel Basquiat’s mesmerizing 1984 painting “Trumpet.” It inspired a new poem from Adrian Matejka that he…
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NewsIncoming CWRU Students Get A Lesson In “Stereotype Threat”
Claude Steele, 69, has spent his professional life thinking about stereotypes. He knows how easily we drop into a defensive…
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NewsCollege-Bound Cleveland Teens Now Published Authors
Sarah Marcus, an English teacher at Saint Martin de Porres high school and local poet, spends her days engaging her…
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NewsREAD: Jericho Brown’s Striking New Poem, “The Tradition”
Poet Jericho Brown, winner of an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award this year, has written a 14-line poem that begins with the…
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NewsRead Walter Mosley’s Love Letter To The Louisana That Shaped Him
Novelist Walter Mosley, the creator of the private investigator Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, has just published a ruminating essay called “Patter…
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NewsREVIEW: Tamara Winfrey Harris Lends Depth To Black Womanhood In “The Sisters Are Alright”
About a year ago, I noticed a number of black women I follow online all wearing the same “Black Girls…
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NewsMeet Our 2015 Winners In And Around Cleveland This September
Anisfield-Wolf award winners are—almost by definition—civic minded. They continue a generous tradition of adding extra public conversations each September in…
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NewsREVIEW: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World And Me” Is A Blunt Examination Of Black Life In America
When a Missouri grand jury decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for killing 18-year-old Michael Brown, journalist Ta-Nehisi…
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NewsNew Nina Simone Documentary Introduces You To The Artist You Thought You Knew
“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me—no fear,” Nina Simone wistfully told an interviewer in 1968. “If I could…
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NewsMeeting In The Middle: Intersectionality At The Foundation Center’s “Rising Tide: Remix”
LaTosha Brown, jazz singer and project director of Grantmakers for Southern Progress, told a story on herself: Having gleefully decided…
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NewsHenry Louis Gates Jr. Remembers Rev. Clementa Pinckney
In a poignant op-ed for The New York Times, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. recalls his time spent…
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NewsPoet Richard Blanco And Activist Ruth Behar Work To Lift Cuba’s “Emotional Embargo”
Writer Ruth Behar and poet Richard Blanco have launched Bridges to/from Cuba, an ambitious collaborative fueled by 20 years of friendship. The…
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NewsEast Cleveland Women Use Poetry On The Path To Healing
by Ann Kowal Smith + Rachel Burstein This post was originally published on the Books@Work blog. Reading, writing and discussing…
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NewsAuthor Isabel Wilkerson Brings Cleveland Connection To “The Warmth Of Other Suns”
Additional reporting by Tara Jefferson When Isabel Wilkerson comes to Cleveland, she sees Alabama. An authority on the Great Migration—the…
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NewsProtests Over Chinese Censorship Target Book Expo America Events
This year, two strikingly opposed vistas marked Book Expo America, the largest annual book industry trade show. Shiny black stretch…
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NewsFour Keys For HBCUs Of The Future To Thrive
A crowd thick with alumni packed the City Club of Cleveland to hear from leaders at their beloved alma maters:…
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NewsDoes Diversity Matter In Book Reviewing? (Hint: Yes, It Does)
New York, NY – Some 20 years ago, when novelist Alexander Chee was working for Out magazine, its owners commissioned…
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NewsREVIEW: “The Light Of The World” Is A Surprisingly Buoyant Portrait Of Grief
A 200-page book on the untimely death of a spouse hardly seems like it would make for light summer reading….
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NewsMarian Wright Edelman Brings Her Crusade To End Child Poverty To Cleveland
Marian Wright Edelman—born 75 years ago in small-town Bennettsville, S.C.—was named for the great contralto Marian Anderson. The founder of…
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NewsSuperheroes In Spandex: Jill Lepore’s Cultural Critique Meets Marvel Writer’s Rebuttal
Did Marvel get it right with A-Force, its latest contribution to the world of female superheroes? Not if you ask…