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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…
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NewsNew Film, “American Promise,” Follows One Young Boy Through 13 Years Of School
In at least one way, Joe Brewster sounds like most fathers. “I want my son to have the best education…
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NewsWhat’s In A Name? The Politics Behind Selecting Your Baby’s Name
Every afternoon, I wait in my children’s grade school library with the other parents for pick-up. The principal reads off…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Book Awards Profiled In Belt Magazine’s Premiere Issue
Several years ago, Clevelander Anne Trubek attended the Anisfield-Wolf ceremony with an interest in hearing that year’s crop of winners…
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NewsMust-See: Carrie Mae Weems At Cleveland Museum Of Art
Photographer and artist Carrie Mae Weems paused in front of more than 600 rapt listeners in late August to take…
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NewsHappy Birthday, Rita Dove
Anisfield-Wolf juror Rita Dove is 61 today. Her father, chemist Ray Dove, took her and her brother from Akron, Ohio,…
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News#HipHopEd = Science Mixed With Rap For An Ultimate Battle Of Skills
“I defy gravity/I am stronger than any force/I am Brooklyn” This isn’t a verse from one of Jay Z’s latest…
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NewsCleveland Public Library’s Brown Bag Book Club Features Anisfield-Wolf Authors
Meet our esteemed manager, Karen R. Long, at the Cleveland Public Library’s Brown Bag Book Club on Wednesday, August 21…
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NewsREVIEW: Eugene Gloria, My Favorite Warlord
by Kathleen Cerveny My Favorite Warlord, by Eugene Gloria, is the recipient of the 2013 Anisfield Wolf Book Award for…
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NewsNew Crowd-Funded Film Explores America’s “White Privilege” Problem
Thanks to generous supporters on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter, anti-racism activist Tim Wise has raised more than $41,000 for a…