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NewsWhat History Books Didn’t Teach You About Rosa Parks
Most children learn about Rosa Parks’ contribution to the Civil Rights Movement thusly: She boarded a bus, refused to move…
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NewsEVENT: Kwame Anthony Appiah And Johnnetta Cole Speak On Identity And Humanity
After a rich discussion between philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah and museum director Johnnetta Cole, the final question in Oberlin’s Finney…
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NewsZadie Smith Shares New Short Story In The New Yorker
We’re always delighted to read a new piece from 2006 winner Zadie Smith’s mind, as she is one of our…
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NewsTom Hanks And Ken Burns Team Up To Produce Jack Johnson Miniseries
Jack Johnson, arguably one of the best heavyweight boxers to ever enter the sport, is about to have his story…
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CWRU Students Give A Voice To The Voice-less
Jim Sheeler has no use for celebrity. He is drawn to “regular people, whose names have never been in the…
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Event: CWRU Students Capture The Oral History Of Eliza Bryant Nursing Home Residents
Let’s start this post off with a story. Imagine if you will, that you are older and your health is…
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NewsVIDEO: Ayana Mathis and Oprah Winfrey Discuss Suffering In “Twelve Tribes”
Have your debut novel selected as Oprah’s second selection in her book club and you must expect for your life…
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What Were Your Thoughts On President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address?
On Monday, President Obama delivered his second Inaugural Address in the cold Washington air, laying out a progressive agenda for…
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News“I Have A Dream”: Collections of Martin Luther King Links From Around The Web
Taylor Branch and Isabel Wilkerson were special guests of the Diane Rehm Show on NPR to discuss Dr. Martin Luther…
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NewsVIDEO: What’s It Like To Be The Inaugural Poet?
On the eve of President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, Yale University hosted a live chat with Elizabeth Alexander, whose “Praise…
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NewsJonathan Kozol To Speak On Reducing Poverty With Dr. Cornel West And Tavis Smiley
1996 winner Jonathan Kozol will be speaking with Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West at the January 17th event, Vision…
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Isabel WIlkerson Describes Jim Crow Laws In The 1950s
In an Art Works podcast hosted by the National Endowment of the Arts, Isabel Wilkerson describes what life was like…
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NewsWe Can’t Get Enough Of Zora Neale Hurston
As we wrote before, Isabel Wilkerson has been educating her fans on the impact of the Great Migration by posting…
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NewsWhat’s The Next Pick In Oprah’s Book Club?
We highlighted the reboot of Oprah’s book club (dubbed Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 as a nod to the newly added…
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Former Plain Dealer Book Editor, Karen Long, Joins Anisfield-Wolf Staff
We are thrilled to announce that Karen Long, until recently the book editor at the Plain Dealer, will be coming…
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NewsVIDEO: Edwidge Danticat On Why Americans Don’t Know Haiti Beyond The Catastrophes
When we see Haiti in the news, it is often downtrodden and negative. Edwidge Danticant, our 2005 winner for fiction,…
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Five Books You Should Read First In 2013
With a new year comes new reading lists. We at Anisfield-Wolf rounded up some of the new and not-so-new books…
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NewsReflections On A New Year: Ralph Ellison Style
“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it…
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What Could This Blog Be In 2013?
As our first full year of blogging here is coming to a close, we at Anisfield-Wolf wanted to take a…
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NewsHave You Seen “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”?
We’ve talked so much about Mohsin Hamid‘s The Reluctant Fundamentalist coming to the big screen next year and the wait…