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NewsConnecting King And Soyinka: Some Things Were Meant To Be Looked At Differently
Kerrick Woyshner, 18, was a scholar in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf class, pioneered by Dr. Lisa Nielson at Case Western…
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NewsRare Recording Of Martin Luther King Jr’s Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Speech
Late last year, the New York State Museum in Albany received an ordinary package – reel-to-reel tapes donated by the…
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NewsReflections On Far From The Tree: Quiet, Beautiful and Different Children
Arjun Gopinath, 17, participated in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf class, pioneered by Dr. Lisa Nielson at Case Western Reserve University. …
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NewsShutting Down The School-to-Prison Pipeline
When Robert Runcie became the new superintendent for Broward County schools, a populous part of metropolitan Miami, Fla., he knew…
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News“CommUniversity” – Bringing African-American Studies To The Masses
Affordable classes on African-American topics for anyone who wants to take them — that’s the gist of Professor Zachery Williams’…
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NewsThis Artist Spent An Entire Year Capturing The Beauty and Essence Of Powerful Women
Unlike most of us, illustrator Lisa Congdon kept her 2013 resolution, for the entire year. We—and the internet—are better for it. …
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NewsRemembering Two Literary Heavyweights The World Lost In 2013
Almost 18 years ago in The New Yorker, Anisfield-Wolf Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. profiled the intellectual and novelist…
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NewsAn Unorthodox Writing Gift For Detroit
Two years ago, writers Toby Barlow and Sarah Cox got together to discuss Detroit. Negative headlines pounded the city’s reputation,…
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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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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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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: 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…