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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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NewsWATCH: 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…
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NewsNew Nina Simone Documentary Introduces You To The Artist You Thought You Knew
“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me—no fear,” Nina Simone wistfully told an interviewer in 1968. “If I could…
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NewsMeeting In The Middle: Intersectionality At The Foundation Center’s “Rising Tide: Remix”
LaTosha Brown, jazz singer and project director of Grantmakers for Southern Progress, told a story on herself: Having gleefully decided…
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NewsHenry Louis Gates Jr. Remembers Rev. Clementa Pinckney
In a poignant op-ed for The New York Times, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. recalls his time spent…
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NewsEast Cleveland Women Use Poetry On The Path To Healing
by Ann Kowal Smith + Rachel Burstein This post was originally published on the Books@Work blog. Reading, writing and discussing…
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NewsAuthor Isabel Wilkerson Brings Cleveland Connection To “The Warmth Of Other Suns”
Additional reporting by Tara Jefferson When Isabel Wilkerson comes to Cleveland, she sees Alabama. An authority on the Great Migration—the…
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NewsProtests Over Chinese Censorship Target Book Expo America Events
This year, two strikingly opposed vistas marked Book Expo America, the largest annual book industry trade show. Shiny black stretch…
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NewsFour Keys For HBCUs Of The Future To Thrive
A crowd thick with alumni packed the City Club of Cleveland to hear from leaders at their beloved alma maters:…
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NewsDoes Diversity Matter In Book Reviewing? (Hint: Yes, It Does)
New York, NY – Some 20 years ago, when novelist Alexander Chee was working for Out magazine, its owners commissioned…
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NewsREVIEW: “The Light Of The World” Is A Surprisingly Buoyant Portrait Of Grief
A 200-page book on the untimely death of a spouse hardly seems like it would make for light summer reading….