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NewsJesmyn Ward Stresses Importance Of Telling Stories That Matter During Recent Visit To Cleveland
On a freezing, overcast March day, the writer Jesmyn Ward made her first foray to Cleveland. She barely smiled as…
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News“Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth” Premieres At Cleveland International Film Festival
For the first time, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards will sponsor a movie at the Cleveland International Film Festival: the documentary,…
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NewsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wins National Book Critics Award For “Americanah”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Americanah” took the top prize for fiction at the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards . Karen Long,…
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NewsWriting Across Race Can Be Treacherous
Occasionally, a white writer will turn to Mat Johnson, the novelist who created the much-praised “Pym” and “Hunting in Harlem,”…
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NewsBeneath The Pain: Andrew Solomon Interviews Peter Lanza, Father Of Sandy Hook Shooter Adam Lanza
Andrew Solomon dedicated a chapter of his Anisfield-Wolf winning Far from the Tree on families whose children have committed serious crimes. He…
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NewsJames McBride Delivers Soul-Stirring Renditions Of Gospel Favorites During “Good Lord Bird” Tour
Few writers have made the kind of spectacular, multimedia splash onto the literary scene the way James McBride has. McBride,…
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NewsVIDEO: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Talks Feminism, Fashion, And Politics
Fresh off a feature on Beyonce’s secret album, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie stopped by HuffPost Live to talk about how her…
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NewsVIDEO: “I, Too, Am Harvard” Highlights Frustration Of Black Students In Predominately White Spaces
A play about the realities of black students at Harvard University debuts Friday at the Black Arts Festival on the…
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NewsWill “My Brother’s Keeper” Be Obama’s Lasting Legacy?
During January’s State of the Union address, President Obama included one sentence midway through his remarks that didn’t receive much…
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NewsHost Of The Internet’s Most Lively Dinner Party, Ta-Nehisi Coates Commands The Room
At 38, Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior correspondent for The Atlantic’s online property, has become one of the nation’s foremost writers on…
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News“Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations” Invites Readers To Do A Deeper Dive Into African-American History
Retha Powers, the editor of the magnificent and addictive new “Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations,” has a handful of all-time favorite…
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NewsVIDEO: David Livingstone Smith On The Delusion Of Race
Philosophy Professor David Livingstone Smith kicked off the University of New England’s 2014 diversity lecture series with a talk on…
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NewsTim Wise’s Attitudes On Race Resonate With University Of Akron Crowd
Anti-racism activist Tim Wise joked that he was on his third visit to the University of Akron campus in the…
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NewsRita Dove Lauded In New Documentary On Her Formative Years
Filmmaker Eduardo Montes-Bradley knew he wanted to make a film on Rita Dove. So the director of documentaries on former NAACP…
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Debating The Best Book Lists: Does Amazon’s “100 Books To Read In A Lifetime” Get It Right?
Wither the best book list? Inherently inane and crazy-making, these are also undeniably good conversation starters. Amazon has posted the…
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NewsBlack Male Achievement Takes Center Stage In New Documentary, “American Promise”
When 13-year-old Idris Brewster, subject of the thought-provoking documentary “American Promise,” is invited to a classmate’s bat mitzvah, he says…
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NewsThe Race Card Project Digs For The Truth About Race In America
Looking out over the multiracial crowd of more than 600 assembled at the University of Akron’s E.J. Thomas Hall, journalist…
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NewsMichelle Alexander On The Perils Of Mass Incarceration In The U.S.
In her influential best-seller, “The New Jim Crow,” law professor Michelle Alexander dissects the devastating racial consequences of “locking up…
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NewsVintage Black Glamour Blog Shows Flashier Side Of African-American History
Ask Nichelle Gainer why she decided to create Vintage Black Glamour, and her answer is simple: She saw a need….
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NewsWil Haygood Tells CWRU The Story Behind “The Butler” During Martin Luther King Convocation
Washington Post reporter Wil Haygood stood in the pulpit at the Amasa Stone Chapel on the Case Western Reserve University…