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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. Has Portrait Unveiled At National Portrait Gallery
We’ve long felt honored to have Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of the nation’s most preeminent African American scholars, as…
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NewsREVIEW: Does Mohsin Hamid’s “How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia” Deliver?
Somewhere, a canny business professor may be plotting to put Mohsin Hamid’s astringent new novel into an MBA course. It…
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NewsEdwidge Danticat Lends Her Pen To The Film, “Girl Rising”
It’s something that most of us in America take for granted—the right to an education. We don’t think about what…
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NewsToni Morrison Shares What Mistakes She Made With “The Bluest Eye”
We were thrilled to receive an invitation to participate in Toni Morrison’s first live digital book signing, courtesy of Google…
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NewsJournalist Jose Antonio Vargas Brings Immigration Debate To Cleveland
The audience was sparse for immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas. As it scattered into the seats of the Ohio Theatre…
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NewsVIDEO: Kwame Anthony Appiah Shares What Winning An Anisfield-Wolf Award Meant To Him
In what we hope will become an ongoing series, we’ll be sitting down with Anisfield-Wolf winners to hear their thoughts…
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NewsRichard Blanco And Elizabeth Alexander Share Their Experience As Inaugural Poets
For the first time in history, two inaugural poets shared the same stage and spoke about what the experience meant…
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Are There Any Books You Wouldn’t Want Your Children To Read?
Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel, Beloved, took home the Anisfield-Wolf award for fiction in 1988. In it, a slave, unwilling to…
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NewsHappy Birthday, Toni Morrison!
In honor of Ms. Morrison’s 82nd birthday, we’re looking back at our archives for some of our favorite moments from…
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NewsJose Antonio Vargas’ Emotional Senate Testimony
In 2011, in the midst of a distinguished career as a journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas revealed that he was living in…
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NewsJunot Diaz Speaks On The Importance Of Libraries
As the U.S. economy continues to crawl toward recovery, more and more people find themselves at the library. Filled with…
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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…