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News[Call For Submissions] 2016 MLK Essay Contest
In a year characterized by racial urgency, the local Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest is expanding to accept entries…
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NewsWhen Children Feel Invisible: Joesiah Poulson at the 80th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
by Ali McClain The beginning movements of this essay began with a complex question: Which author’s reading from the 80th…
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News[In Their Words] Examining The Runaway Success Of A Brief History Of Seven Killings
by Dr. Anand Bhat In 2007, when I asked my driver in Caracas if evangelical Christianity had been making its…
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NewsRoxane Gay On Being A Public Intellectual In The Age Of Social Media
Twitter was made for pithy public intellectuals like Roxane Gay. Nearly 100,000 people follow the author and professor for her…
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NewsREVIEW: “The Education of Kevin Powell”
Violence permeates nearly every page of “The Education of Kevin Powell.” Neighborhood boys, relatives, authority figures and even the author…
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NewsBringing Maya Angelou’s Poetry To Single Moms In Cleveland
One of my favorite Maya Angelou quotes—one I love so much that I gave all my friends an illustrated copy…
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The Incredible Staying Power Of James McBride’s “The Color of Water”
by Gail Arnoff, adjunct professor, John Carroll University The first time I read The Color of Water, I was deep…
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NewsAuthor Daniel Mendelsohn On Writing And Discovering The Holocaust Anew
Cultural critic Daniel Mendelsohn paused in Cleveland this October before his written remarks to take in the stunning, restored Temple-Tifereth…
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NewsPoet Eugene Gloria Brings Discussion On Identity To Hiram College
Tom Pantic, a junior at Hiram College in Ohio, wanted to know how poet Eugene Gloria felt about being put…
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NewsREVIEW: “A Ballerina’s Tale: The Incredible Rise Of Misty Copeland”
“A Ballerina’s Tale” is a delightfully intimate portrait of Misty Copeland—full of close-ups, uncomfortable silence, and peeks behind the curtain…
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NewsWATCH: Highlights From Our 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Ceremony
This past September, Jericho Brown, Marlon James, Marilyn Chin and Richard S. Dunn accepted their 2015 Anisfield-Wolf awards at a…
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NewsWATCH: Richard S. Dunn, 2015 Winner Of Anisfield-Wolf Prize: “It Is A Tremendous Honor”
Richard S. Dunn spent 40 years researching and writing “A Tale of Two Plantations,” a scrupulous, revelatory archival investigation of…
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WATCH: Marlon James On Winning The 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Prize: “My Whole Life Has Been Shaped By Anisfield-Wolf”
It was a brief passage in “Sula,” Toni Morrison‘s 1973 novel, that changed Marlon James‘ entire life: in it, Sula…
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2015 TV 3: RTA Public Art
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NewsArtwork Inspired By Anisfield-Wolf Winners Coming Soon To Cleveland’s Public Transit
Clevelanders feeling uninspired on their daily commute will soon have one route infused with a new literary landscape. …
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NewsREAD: Adrian Matejka’s New Jean-Michel Basquiat-Inspired Poem, “& Later,”
Take a look at Jean-Michel Basquiat’s mesmerizing 1984 painting “Trumpet.” It inspired a new poem from Adrian Matejka that he…
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NewsIncoming CWRU Students Get A Lesson In “Stereotype Threat”
Claude Steele, 69, has spent his professional life thinking about stereotypes. He knows how easily we drop into a defensive…
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NewsCollege-Bound Cleveland Teens Now Published Authors
Sarah Marcus, an English teacher at Saint Martin de Porres high school and local poet, spends her days engaging her…
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NewsREAD: Jericho Brown’s Striking New Poem, “The Tradition”
Poet Jericho Brown, winner of an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award this year, has written a 14-line poem that begins with the…
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Meet Our 2015 Winners In And Around Cleveland This September
Anisfield-Wolf award winners are—almost by definition—civic minded. They continue a generous tradition of adding extra public conversations each September in…