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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…
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Join Us At The Cleveland Public Library For A Summer Of Reading Anisfield-Wolf
The annual Anisfield-Wolf brown bag lunch series at the Cleveland Public Library takes a twist this year with a deep…
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Isabel Wilkerson And Shonda Rhimes Team Up For FX Series Of “The Warmth Of Other Suns”
Which black actors might best portray Ida Mae Gladney, George Starling and Dr. Robert Pershing Foster, the three real-life protagonists…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Winners Fall On Both Sides Of PEN American Center’s Charlie Hebdo Award Controversy
More than 200 prominent authors—among them Anisfield-Wolf winners Junot Diaz and Kamila Shamsie—have publicly objected to the PEN American Center’s…
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NewsRead Poet Jericho Brown’s Letter To CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Over Baltimore Coverage
“I want to hear you say there should be peaceful protests, not violent protests, in the tradition of Martin Luther…
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NewsFour Poets On How Trauma And Conflict Inform Their Work
Minneapolis, MN — When the poet Ken Chen put together a discussion called “Mapping New Territories: Diasporic Writers from Regions…
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NewsHBO To Bring Marlon James’ Brief History Of Seven Killings To The Screen
The cable network renowned for ambitious storytelling has optioned the rights to Marlon James’ latest novel, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf…
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NewsEducation Trumps Stereotypes: A Cleveland Student’s Perspectives On Islam
by Maria Pineda For centuries, Christians have stereotyped Muslims and I, for most of my 17 years, have stereotyped them…
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NewsToni Morrison Returns With “God Help The Child,” Remains Wickedly Entertaining
At 84, Toni Morrison is full of reflection on her successes and incidents where she might request a do-over. “It’s…
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NewsProfessor Adam Banks On The Link Between Funk And Technology
In a warm lecture hall, University of Kentucky professor Adam Banks bounced and spoke with the cool cadence of a…
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NewsMeet Our 2015 Winners
The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of its 80th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2015 recipients of the only…