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NewsCongressman John Lewis Urges Cleveland State Graduates To “Be Good Citizens Of The World”
On the day Nelson Mandela’s body was lowered into the ground, Congressman John Lewis raised his voice half a world…
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NewsIs Alumni Giving The Cure-All For What’s Ailing HBCUs?
When the Grambling State University football team refused to play this October, the eyes of collegiate sports turned to Louisiana…
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NewsMeet John Anisfield, The Cleveland Philanthropist You Probably Haven’t Heard Of
Sharp-eyed Clevelanders can still spot John Anisfield’s name on the side of his old garment factory, which employed more than…
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NewsHarlem Organization Lobbies For Street Named In Honor Of James Baldwin
The 2010 Census figures tallied Harlem’s black population at its lowest since the 1920s. Such broad demographic changes have left…
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News#NPRBlacksInTech Series Explores Racial Divide In Tech Industry
African-American tech insiders will talk about their work stories in a new series on National Public Radio’s Tell Me More. From Dec….
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NewsPoet Joshua Bennett Offers Electric Spoken Word Experience At Kent State University
Poet Joshua Bennett adjusted the mic stand at Kent State University. “I was raised Baptist,” he warned the audience in…
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NewsWhoopi Goldberg’s Directorial Debut Honors Moms Mabley
When Whoopi Goldberg made plans to revive her one-woman Broadway show on Moms Mabley, she ran into a problem: few…
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NewsPulitzer Prize-Winning Journalists Raise Awareness Of Women’s Oppression
“We have all won the lottery of life,” Sheryl WuDunn said she criss-crossed the stage during her recent appearance at…
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NewsWhy Can’t Superheroes Be Muslim?
Marvel Comics, home to some of the world’s most recognizable superheroes, has widened diversity among its trademark characters with the…
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News“Your Words Have Changed My Life”: Dayton Literary Peace Prize Ceremony Salutes Literary Heavyweights
The potency of literature went on vivid display in early November when readers gathered around the writers who won this…
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NewsAuthor Kirk W. Johnson On The Fight To Help Iraqi Allies Left Behind
At 32, Kirk W. Johnson is a veteran of a particularly harrowing kind of politics. A soft-spoken and reluctant activist,…
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NewsVIDEO: Junot Diaz On Winning An Anisfield-Wolf Award For “The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao”
Fresh off the paperback release of his newest work, This is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz swung by Cleveland…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf SAGES Professor Debunks Myths About The Harem
In the harem, women did not go naked. Nor did they wear flimsy, see-through harem pants. Despite the panting Western…
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NewsVIDEO: Wole Soyinka On Winning A Lifetime Achievement Award
At the conclusion of this year’s ceremony, a number of Nigerians in attendance approached our lifetime achievement winner Wole Soyinka,…
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NewsVIDEO: A. Van Jordan On Winning An Anisfield-Wolf Award
A. Van Jordan made an October appearance at Market Garden Brewery’s Brews & Prose event, sharing snippets from his latest work, “The…
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NewsLangston Hughes’ Boyhood Home Undergoes Complete Renovation In Cleveland
The wood-frame Cleveland house where Langston Hughes once scribbled teenaged insights is back from the brink. Four years ago its…
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NewsVIDEO: 2013 Winner Eugene Gloria On Winning The 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Award For Poetry
Eugene Gloria‘s My Favorite Warlord earned praise from the Anisfield-Wolf jury for his “vivid and striking” work examining masculinity, identity, and…
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NewsNew PBS Series, “Many Rivers To Cross,” Explores The Depth Of African-American History
If you follow Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Twitter or Facebook, you are probably already privy to the bevy of heavy…
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NewsStephen L. Carter Talks Civility In Politics At PlayhouseSquare
As guests began to trickle in to the Ohio Theater at Playhouse Square, an older woman surveyed the crowd and…
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NewsJunot Diaz Ponders Identity And Passion For Writing At Cleveland State University Keynote
Junot Diaz did not dress up for his talk. He wore black jeans, worn boots and his white shirttails out…