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    Hidden Figures

    Margot Lee Shetterly

    …particularly vivid women out of the shadows—Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Christine Darden. Through hundreds of interviews and via thousands of documents, Shetterly tells their stories. The book…

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    Olio

    Tyehimba Jess

    …also: the second part of a minstrel show which featured a variety of performance acts and later evolved into vaudeville. The book, observes the Oxford American, “rests in the hand…

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    Literary Cleveland Inkubator Conference

    September 6 – September 10, 2022

    …local voices. 2022 speakers include Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Past speakers include Hanif Abdurraqib, Jericho Brown, Wesley Lowery, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Claudia Rankine, Connie Schultz and more. ‍ ‍…

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    Ake

    Wole Soyinka

    and techniques. In his hands, African traditions assume meanings that are much wider than the ones accepted within their geographical location. “We must not think that traditionalism means raffia skirts,”…

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    A Different Mirror

    Ronald Takaki

    Takaki was the author and editor of more than 20 books, including Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th Century America (1979), Strangers From a Different Shore: A History of…

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    Paule Marshall

    …(2001).  She has also published two collections of short fiction: Soul Clap Hands Sing (1961) and Reena and other Stories (1983).  A MacArthur Fellow and winner of the John Dos…

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    Simple Takes a Wife

    Langston Hughes

    …family. Mulatto opened on Broadway in 1935 and became the longest running Broadway play by an African American until A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry nearly 25 years…

  • Portrait of Charlayne Hunter-Gault
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    Charlayne Hunter-Gault

    …courage than one piece of the larger struggle of the Black community, bolstered by its own history of accomplishment. “It is a story,” she writes, “of values. My family’s values…

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    The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca

    Anthony F.C. Wallace

    This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious…

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    La Vida

    Oscar Lewis

    With tape recorder in hand, Oscar Lewis documented the distinct voices of poverty among Native Americans, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. He writes, “I believe [tape transcription] captures the full flavor…

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    Literary Cleveland Inkubator Virtual Events

    September 16 – September 18, 2024

    Inkubator 2024 kicks off September 16-18 with three virtual panels featuring Hanif Abdurraqib and Christina Sharpe on attention and accumulation in nonfiction, Stephen Graham Jones with Shane Hawk and Theodore…

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    Sing, Unburied, Sing

    Jesmyn Ward

    …live in, and also about the kind of people who live in my community,” Ward said on the radio show Fresh Air. Growing up, young Jesmyn wore hand-me-down clothes and

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    Free Book Giveaway at the WestSide Market

    September 22, 2024, 10:00 am

    and Carol and John’s Comic Shop will have free comics, and Rust Belt Humanities Lab will be on hand for a free talk on documentary comics. Great for the whole…

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    Deacon King Kong

    James McBride

    …won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, spent more than two years on the bestseller lists and entered the international literary canon. Asked in 2013 by the New York Times if he identified with any…

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    “Of Fear and Strangers”: Author George Makari at Cleveland Botanical Gardens

    September 16, 2022, 3:00 pm

    Join us as we welcome author George Makari in a conversation on xenophobia with Case Western Reserve University Department of History Chair and Theodore J. Castele Professor, Dr. Jonathan Sadowsky….

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    Ursuline College: Natasha Trethewey

    October 28, 2021, 12:00 pm

    …between the two women. Trethewey writes of how her mother came to die at the hands of a former husband when the author was 19, as well as the Mississippi…

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    The Water Is Wide

    Pat Conroy

    The island is nearly deserted, haunting, and beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw Island, America is a world away….

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    African Ark

    Carol Beckwith

    and Fisher won the Anisfield-Wolf Award, the Institute of Human Origins prize, and The Golden Hand of Lucy for their first joint project, African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of…

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    All That She Carried

    Tiya Miles

    …held a tattered dress 3 handfulls of pecans a braid of Roses hair. Told her It be filled with my Love always she never saw her again Ashley is my…