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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…
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NewsConnecting King And Soyinka: Some Things Were Meant To Be Looked At Differently
Kerrick Woyshner, 18, was a scholar in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf class, pioneered by Dr. Lisa Nielson at Case Western…
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NewsRare Recording Of Martin Luther King Jr’s Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Speech
Late last year, the New York State Museum in Albany received an ordinary package – reel-to-reel tapes donated by the…
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NewsReflections On Far From The Tree: Quiet, Beautiful and Different Children
Arjun Gopinath, 17, participated in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf class, pioneered by Dr. Lisa Nielson at Case Western Reserve University. …
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NewsShutting Down The School-to-Prison Pipeline
When Robert Runcie became the new superintendent for Broward County schools, a populous part of metropolitan Miami, Fla., he knew…
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NewsWhat Race Means To Me: Being Chinese In A White America
Andrea Lau, 18, was a student scholar this past fall in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf course, pioneered by Dr. Lisa…
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News“CommUniversity” – Bringing African-American Studies To The Masses
Affordable classes on African-American topics for anyone who wants to take them — that’s the gist of Professor Zachery Williams’…
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NewsThis Artist Spent An Entire Year Capturing The Beauty and Essence Of Powerful Women
Unlike most of us, illustrator Lisa Congdon kept her 2013 resolution, for the entire year. We—and the internet—are better for it. …
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NewsRemembering Two Literary Heavyweights The World Lost In 2013
Almost 18 years ago in The New Yorker, Anisfield-Wolf Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. profiled the intellectual and novelist…
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NewsAn Unorthodox Writing Gift For Detroit
Two years ago, writers Toby Barlow and Sarah Cox got together to discuss Detroit. Negative headlines pounded the city’s reputation,…