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News“Less Than Human”: How One Professor Explores Deeper Meaning Behind Dehumanization
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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NewsJunot Diaz Promotes “Freedom University” On The Colbert Report
One of our most accomplished, “visible” authors has to be Junot Diaz, hands down. He is at ease on the…
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NewsToni Morrison Speaks To Cadets At West Point After “Home” Finds Place In Their English Curriculum
Toni Morrison doesn’t hold her tongue on anything she deems important for the masses to know. At 82, she has…
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NewsCelebrated Nigerian Author Chinua Achebe Dies At 82
During my freshman year at Kent State University, I was a little wary when I saw one of the books…
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NewsKwame Anthony Appiah Speaks On National Honor At Severance Hall Lecture
American philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah is not allowed into China. He mentioned this fact at the end of his well-attended…
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NewsJoyce Carol Oates’ Latest Novel, “The Accursed,” Has Fans Buzzing
Chances are, Joyce Carol Oates’ latest work is unlike anything you’ve ever read before. “The Accursed” takes readers on a…
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NewsCivil Rights Icon Andrew Young Jr. On 50th Anniversary of “Letter From Birmingham Jail”
Boston—U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young turns 81 this week. He was barely into his 30s when he traveled with the Rev….
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News“Warmth Of Other Suns” Named The 2013 Selection For Chicago’s City-Wide Book Club
With so much negative news spilling out of Chicago each day, we’re happy to see at least one bright spot…
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Harriet Tubman, American Hero
March 10th, 2013 was the 100th anniversary of the death of Harriet Tubman, a woman whose name is synonymous with…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. Has Portrait Unveiled At National Portrait Gallery
We’ve long felt honored to have Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of the nation’s most preeminent African American scholars, as…
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NewsREVIEW: Does Mohsin Hamid’s “How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia” Deliver?
Somewhere, a canny business professor may be plotting to put Mohsin Hamid’s astringent new novel into an MBA course. It…
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NewsEdwidge Danticat Lends Her Pen To The Film, “Girl Rising”
It’s something that most of us in America take for granted—the right to an education. We don’t think about what…
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NewsToni Morrison Shares What Mistakes She Made With “The Bluest Eye”
We were thrilled to receive an invitation to participate in Toni Morrison’s first live digital book signing, courtesy of Google…
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NewsJournalist Jose Antonio Vargas Brings Immigration Debate To Cleveland
The audience was sparse for immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas. As it scattered into the seats of the Ohio Theatre…
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NewsVIDEO: Kwame Anthony Appiah Shares What Winning An Anisfield-Wolf Award Meant To Him
In what we hope will become an ongoing series, we’ll be sitting down with Anisfield-Wolf winners to hear their thoughts…
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NewsRichard Blanco And Elizabeth Alexander Share Their Experience As Inaugural Poets
For the first time in history, two inaugural poets shared the same stage and spoke about what the experience meant…
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Are There Any Books You Wouldn’t Want Your Children To Read?
Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel, Beloved, took home the Anisfield-Wolf award for fiction in 1988. In it, a slave, unwilling to…
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NewsHappy Birthday, Toni Morrison!
In honor of Ms. Morrison’s 82nd birthday, we’re looking back at our archives for some of our favorite moments from…
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NewsJose Antonio Vargas’ Emotional Senate Testimony
In 2011, in the midst of a distinguished career as a journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas revealed that he was living in…
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NewsJunot Diaz Speaks On The Importance Of Libraries
As the U.S. economy continues to crawl toward recovery, more and more people find themselves at the library. Filled with…