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  • Portrait of John Hope Franklin
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    John Hope Franklin

    …black experience had always been a crucial part of the fight for racial equality. Franklin was born in the all-black Oklahoma frontier town of Rentiesville. He moved with his family…

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    When Artists Go to Work: The 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Author Symposium

    September 28, 2024, 11:00 am

    …and Steven Pinker” Through the exploration of the human experience and the power of language, Rita Dove and Steven Pinker have a profound legacy in letters. Join us in honoring…

  • Cover of Black Like Me
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    Black Like Me

    John Howard Griffin

    experience traveling on Greyhound buses (occasionally hitchhiking) throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia passing as a black man. Sepia Magazine financed the project in exchange…

  • Cover of Maasai
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    Maasai

    Carol Beckwith

    …come to life (the cover photograph is of the author’s brother). This is not so much a book as it is an experience, aided by its “over-sized” coffee table format…

  • Cover of The Homeplace
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    The Homeplace

    Marilyn Nelson Waniek

    In this quietly provocative and poignant collection of poems, Waniek records the history of her family, beginning with her great-great-grandmother’s experiences as a slave in the South, through her father’s…

  • Photo of Yusef Komunyakka
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    Yusef Komunyakaa

    …underneath, moving into the emotional architecture of the poem.” We are deeply honored to have experienced over fifty years of poetic architecture built by the hands of Yusef Komunyakaa.   On…

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    Half American

    Matthew F. Delmont

    …Europe is something that Blacks understood as white supremacism.” More than one-million Black American men and women served in World War II, and those experiences galvanized the demand to defeat…

  • Portrait of Charlayne Hunter-Gault
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    Charlayne Hunter-Gault

    …coverage are the positive experiences and stories of the Black community and culture. This is one of the reasons I was able to convince Arthur Gelb, the influential New York…

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    CIFF + AWBA Streams Film Selections

    September 27 – October 3, 2021

    experiences with racism and the impact it has had on her. Produced in USC’s CTAN 470 Documentary Animation Production class by 12 student directors. The Water Walker This documentary traces…

  • Cover of East River
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    East River

    Sholem Asch

    …where his brothers and sisters had settled. His experience led to several novels, including East River (1946), which chronicled the efforts of Jewish immigrants to adjust to American life in…

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    Justice in South Africa

    Albie Sachs

    …Sachs detailed his experiences in his acclaimed books, The Jail Diaries of Albie Sachs (1965), which drew world focus on the injustices of the Apartheid regime in South Africa, and…

  • Portrait of August Wilson
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    August Wilson

    …Hedley II and Radio Golf. These works explore the heritage and experience of African-Americans, decade-by-decade, over the course of the twentieth century. His work has garnered many awards, including Pulitzer…

  • Portrait of William Demby
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    William Demby

    …a unique pairing of traditional themes and modernist style. William Demby on Writing “Writing these novels was as often as not a sobering learning experience. Beetlecreek taught me that Truth…

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    Cleveland Public Library: Inventory of Lost Books

    September 1 – September 30, 2026

    …chapter serves not only as a standalone experience, but also as part of a larger call to action against the erasure of ideas, histories, and cultural memory. Inventory of Lost…

  • Cover of New York Burning
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    New York Burning

    Jill Lepore

    …PBS’s The American Experience. She received her B.A. in English from the Tufts University, an M.A. in American Culture from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in American Studies…

  • Cover of Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
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    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

    Walter Mosley

    …Johnson. Mosley’s books experienced a boom in sales during the 1992 presidential campaign, when Bill Clinton cited them as among his favorites. Mosley has been included in the Norton Anthology…

  • Cover of The War Against the Jews
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    The War Against the Jews

    Lucy S. Dawidowicz

    …Dawidowicz, the daughter of Polish immigrants, was at the center of the study of the modern Jewish experience at Yeshiva University, where she held a chair in interdisciplinary Holocaust studies….

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    Matthew F. Delmont & “Half American”

    September 30, 2023, 12:00 pm

    …women served in World War II, and those experiences galvanized the demand to defeat white supremacy at home. Anisfield-Wolf Juror Steven Pinker praised “Half American” as a “book heroically researched,…

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    Spring Discussion Series – Memorial Drive

    March 19, 2025, 4:00 pm

    …confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience shaped the artist she became. Moving through her mother’s…

  • Cover of There There
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    There There

    Tommy Orange

    …being alive and well today, thriving in various different forms of life, good and bad. I wanted to represent a range of human experiences as a way to humanize Native…