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by Charles Ellenbogen  Eddie has just escaped from the farm; Eddie also has no hands. Those are among the first…

What if Martin Luther King Jr woke up and asked, “What happened since I’ve been gone?” The answer is the…

Each time poet and Akron native Rita Dove speaks in Northeast Ohio, she begins with an acknowledgement of home. Her…

Philosopher David Livingstone Smith gave a lively preview of “Making Monsters: The Uncanny Powers of Dehumanization,” his forthcoming book, for…

The gritty documentary “Romeo is Bleeding” took home the top audience choice prize at this year’s Cleveland International Film Festival….

Bree Newsome — the activist who brought down the Confederate flag flying outside the Columbia, S.C. capitol building in 2015 —…

Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout” took home the Man Booker Prize for 2016, making him the first U.S. author to win…

The editors of the New York Times Style magazine invited four woman to write letters of appreciation to Michelle Obama…

For the last event of the inaugural Cleveland Book Week, Brian Seibert rolled up his cuffs and gave the audience…

Orlando Patterson, the public intellectual and Harvard University sociologist, made a deep impression on his audiences in Cleveland in September….

by Lisa Nielson, Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. I was taking an internet break from my pile of…

This Halloween, families can share a treat that lasts longer than candy corn: “Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of…

Mary Morris spent close to two decades crafting her jazz-soaked Chicago novel, The Jazz Palace, winner of this year’s Anisfield-Wolf…

“America is indelibly black-ish,” sociologist Orlando Patterson asserted to the audience at Playhouse Square during this year’s awards ceremony. “Trying…