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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…
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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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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…
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NewsVIDEO: Kevin Powers, Author of The Yellow Birds, On Winning The 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Award
Kevin Powers‘ The Yellow Birds has been called a “beautiful and horrifying trance of a book,” an unnerving look at…
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NewsVIDEO: Laird Hunt On Winning A 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Award For Fiction
While Laird Hunt was in Cleveland for the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf ceremony, we managed to nab him for a brief interview…
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NewsPoetry Anthology Published To Honor Malala Yousafzai
October 9 is the first anniversary of the grim day that masked gunmen stormed onto a bus in Pakistan and…
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NewsVIDEO: Andrew Solomon On Winning The 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Award
We caught up with Andrew Solomon a few hours before the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf ceremony to ask him his thoughts on…
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NewsA. Van Jordan Remixes Film And Poetry For Latest Work, “The Cineaste”
When the starter failed Tuesday in A. Van Jordan’s car, the poet leased a rental and made a deadline dash…
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NewsVeterans Flock To Kevin Powers’ Message Of Resiliency And Courage At CWRU Event
Kevin Powers didn’t flinch when the novelist Thrity Umrigar asked him a pointed question—had he considered incorporating substantial Iraqi characters…
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News“We Are All Political”: Poets Eugene Gloria & Kazim Ali Move The Crowd At MOCA
Eugene Gloria says that he is fascinated by failure. He was quick to describe a particular poem or two as…