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    A Reckoning with Shared History: Lynching and Percival Everett’s “The Trees”

    September 14, 2022, 6:00 pm

    …Project. Community gatherings in the physical spaces impacted by lynchings are a central part of reckoning with and acknowledging the legacy of racial violence in the project’s work. In partnership…

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    Half of a Yellow Sun

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    …Biafran War. It was published in August 2006 in the United Kingdom and in September 2006 in the United States. Like Purple Hibiscus, it has also been released in Nigeria….

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    Quincy Jones

    Quincy Jones

    Quincy Jones cannot be pigeonholed. In his 50-year music career, Jones has worn the hats of composer, record producer, artist, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist and record company executive. His musical career…

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    The Autobiography of an Unknown South African

    Naboth Mokgatle

    Mokgatle’s keen interest in reading inspired him to enroll at a number of night schools in Pretoria and Johannesburg. Some of these were run by members of the South African…

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    The Renunciations

    Donika Kelly

    …trauma and exists in part to recast its meanings. It also speaks to a wife and lover exiting the speaker’s life. “I was born in L.A., in the early 1980s,…

  • Portrait of Eric Foner
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    Eric Foner

    …truth, and justice. My admiration for him is profound, and if ever there was an exemplar to whom I would point aspiring historians for inspiration in the pursuit of their…

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    Naught for Your Comfort

    Trevor Huddleston

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    Free Book Giveaway at the WestSide Market

    September 22, 2024, 10:00 am

    …at the West Side Market in partnership with the Cleveland Public Library! CPL will give away books at a fruit and vegetable stand in the arcade, Comics at the Corner…

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    Latin Americans in Texas

    Pauline R. Kibbe

    …field associate to the Executive Committee on Inter-American Relations in Texas. In 1943 she became the first executive secretary of the Good Neighbor Commission. In 1944 she wrote Community Organization…

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    Colored Television

    Danzy Senna

    A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex.   Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously,…

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    Gods of the Upper Air

    Charles King

    …the Universe, but I have lived in many ways, sweet and bitter, and they feel right for me…,” Hurston wrote. “I have walked in the storms with a crown of…

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    What the Eye Hears

    Brian Seibert

    In the 1980s, when Brian Seibert was growing up in suburban Los Angeles, he learned a few basic tap steps in dance class. As an adult in New York City,…

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    The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

    Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    …janitor; his mother was a housewife. Gates describes his youth and coming of age in the storytelling memoir Colored People (1994), in which he recalls a vibrant black community about…

  • Portrait of Ernest J. Gaines
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    Ernest J. Gaines

    …its complicated intersections of African American, Creole, Cajun, and white culture. Gaines was born on the River Lake Plantation in Oscar, Louisiana, in Point Coup Parish, and was raised largely…

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    Sing, Unburied, Sing

    Jesmyn Ward

    …November. She is the only woman in American letters to have two. “I feel like in every book that I commit to telling the truth about the place that I…

  • Portrait of Samuel R. Delany
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    Samuel R. Delany

    …center of things,” Delany told Miller. “It’s a category to put things in. You can’t think without categories; but you want categories that are complex enough that whatever is inside them is…

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    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

    Walter Mosley

    …Mosley worked a series of jobs, including caterer, potter, and computer programmer. In 1981 he moved to New York and began taking graduate writing courses at the City College of…

  • Portrait of Gordon Parks
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    Gordon Parks

    …a World War II newsreel by documentary filmmaker Norman Alley, Parks resolved to become a photographer. Based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the self-taught Parks immediately showed an original eye for…

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    The Negro College Graduate

    Charles S. Johnson

    …commissions, including for racial violence and public housing. He wrote a critical study of forced labor in Liberia for the League of Nations in 1930 called Bitter Canaan. In 1946,…

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    Simple Takes a Wife

    Langston Hughes

    …of a close-knit black community, and he was always encouraged to read. As a teenager, Hughes lived with his mother in Lincoln, Illinois, and Cleveland, Ohio. In Cleveland, he contributed…