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Deesha Philyaw will deliver the 2021 Langston Hughes Literary keynote at the 2021 GLAAWC conference at 11 am. Her debut…

Novelist Marlon James and Historian Vincent Brown will crack open their ideas in a unique conversation centered on Jamaica. The…

Join the campus-wide read of former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s “Memorial Drive,” praised as an instant classic. The memoir…

Join the NEOMFA Reading Series for a reading, conversation, and Q&A featuring a pair of Anisfield-Wolf winning poets. Chang won…

What is the schedule for CIFF Streams + Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards film events?For a list of film events and their…

Journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson, an authority on the Great Migration and the anthropology of caste, will anchor the Cleveland…

Two girls, African American eighth graders, separated by geography and time, made a splash at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. …

The holiday of Juneteenth is deepening its mark on American history. The U.S. Senate voted unanimously this week to make…

By Lisa Nielson Almost 90 years ago, two women quietly cooked up what is to this day the only juried…

She [Zora Neale Hurston] was herself, like all these individuals, a contrarian. And she wondered during the Second World War,…

“She used to sing Chinese poetry to me, and she was illiterate, but she had memorized hundreds of poems and…

“There was just no decent literature, no history about people like me. And finally, in the 1970s the atmosphere was…

“It’s hard to joke your way out of spaces of physical violence that we’re seeing many people having to struggle…

Hurricane Maria scythed more than 3,000 souls on Puerto Rico, according to the official death toll. Among that number was…

The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 86th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2021 recipients of the only…

Not only did Brown do heroic work in his original scholarship, but he escaped the insular world of academese and presented it in an accessible and appealing form. It’s a major accomplishment.

I often failed at assimilation but learned all of the skills along the way through trial and error. Sometimes the people I wanted to assimilate with didn’t see me, but I still got the practice. I’m not saying it’s a positive thing. It just is. Therefore, I’m nobody, who are you? Yet, I’m also everybody.

Samuel R. Delany, a science fiction icon and pioneer in gay literature, began his childhood in the living quarters atop…

Deacon King Kong […] is robust and funny, confronting tragedy with an ebullient comic spirit, “pulling its punches” in unexpected ways that repudiate disaster and resound just right.