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News“Can I Touch Your Hair?” NYC Exhibit Lets Passerby Explore Black Women’s Tresses
As an African-American woman, I’ve had strangers grab and rake their fingers through my hair (without my permission) on more…
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NewsCongressman John Lewis Publishes Graphic Novel Of Civil Rights Movement
“Some of you may be asking: ‘Hey, John Lewis, why are you trying to write a comic book?’” said the…
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NewsLorraine Hansberry Biopic In Development
Films on Princess Diana, Steve Jobs, and Jimi Hendrix should make 2013 a rich year for biopics. An intriguing new…
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NewsREVIEW: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Soars With “Americanah”
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Knopf, 477 pp., $26.95 Hair asserts itself on the first page of “Americanah,” a knowing, prickly…
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News“Nollywood” Brings Adaptation of Adichie’s “Half of a Yellow Sun”
If you can’t find the art you want, make it yourself. That was famously the mindset of Jay-Z, when the…
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NewsRita Dove’s 2013 Emory University Commencement Address
Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Rita Dove delivered the 2013 commencement address to the graduates of…
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NewsRare Slave Cabin To Become Crown Jewel Of New African American History Museum
Where can one find Nat Turner’s Bible, Emmet Till’s coffin and Harriet Tubman’s shawl? Answer: the Smithsonian National Museum of…
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News“Geography Of Hate” Map Shows Where Most Hateful Tweeters Lurk
Students at Humboldt State University in northern California analyzed more than 11 months of Twitter data to locate the biggest…
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NewsNew PBS Series Spans 500 Years Of African-American History
Anisfield-Wolf jury chair Henry Louise Gates Jr. has been busy the past few months, filming episodes of his new PBS…
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NewsEasy Rawlins Returns In Walter Mosley’s Latest Thriller
Anisfield-Wolf winner Walter Mosley gave his readers a true cliff hanger in his last Easy Rawlins book, 2007’s Blonde Faith….
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NewsAdvocacy Organization Pushes For “Mother’s Day Our Way”
Reacting to the blah, monochromatic nature of typical of Mother’s Day cards, Strong Families, an Alturas, California policy group, launched…
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NewsNew Film Recovers The Story Of Classical Music’s Forgotten Black Virtuoso
At age 2, Joshua Coyne was removed from his Kansas City home with broken legs and hips. His foster mother…
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NewsVIDEO: Watch Andrew Solomon’s TEDMED Talk On Illness Versus Identity
Under the slogan “ideas worth spreading,” the annual TED conferences began in 1990, and have showcased a clutch of Anisfield-Wolf…
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NewsMeet Eugene Gloria, 2013 Winner For Poetry
Eugene Gloria’s 2012 poetry collection, My Favorite Warlord, won this year’s Anisfield-Wolf prize for poetry. Born in Manila, Phillippines, Gloria uses My Favorite Warlord’s 35…
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NewsMeet Kevin Powers, 2013 Winner For Fiction
The road home from war is a long journey to rediscover who you are. Author Kevin Powers, who signed up…
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NewsMeet Andrew Solomon, 2013 Winner For Nonfiction
Culled from more than 40,000 pages of interview transcripts, Andrew Solomon‘s Far From The Tree takes an exhaustive look at families…
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NewsMeet Laird Hunt, 2013 Winner For Fiction
Laird Hunt is the author of five novels and one short story collection. His latest book, Kind One, won the…
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NewsMeet Wole Soyinka, 2013 Lifetime Achievement Winner
We’ll be spending this week exploring the lives and works of the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Award winners. Today we’re recognizing Wole…
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2013 Press Release: Winners Announced
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BookThe Yellow Birds
Writer Kevin Powers, who joined the Army at age 17 and served as a machine gunner in Iraq, creates a tightly focused, hypnotic story that spirals around his central character’s isolation. Powers has created a piercing portrayal of war.