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    Non-European Peoples of South Africa

    Ralph J. Bunche

    …Strategic Services (OSS) in 1941 as a specialist in African Politics. In 1944, Bunche moved to the State Department where he was the first African-American to run a departmental division…

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    In the Language of My Captor

    Shane McCrae

    …wrote it while teaching creative writing at Oberlin College in Ohio. In the fall of 2017, he accepted a position on the faculty of Columbia University in New York. When…

  • Portrait of Ishmael Reed
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    Ishmael Reed

    …the work in “The Poetry of the Negro,” her first national exposure. Hughes in turn introduced Reed to Anne Freedgood, an editor at Doubleday who, in 1967, acquired Reed’s first…

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    The 90th Anniversary Celebration

    September 20, 2025, 9:00 am

    …past Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winning poets—Victoria Chang, Marilyn Chin, Eugene Gloria, Tyehimba Jess, Ilya Kaminsky, Adrian Matejka, Shane McCrae, and Monica Youn—as they read past and new works that speak…

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    2024 Winners Announcement with Percival Everett

    March 26, 2024, 7:00 pm

    …the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till. “This is a wickedly clever novel of ideas in the guise of genre fiction, a combination of mystery, thriller, police procedural and absurdist comedy,”…

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    M•A•C•N•O•L•I•A

    A. Van Jordan

    …not on the official list. That stolen opportunity marked her for life, and she was never afterwards the same. Jordan comes from Akron, and he stumbled upon Cox’s haunting story,…

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    The Life of Langston Hughes

    Arnold Rampersad

    …effectively conveys not only the complex, frustrating difficulties of Hughes’s work in poetry, opera, musical theater, children’s books, and popular history but the rigors and humiliation of his speaking tours…

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    Cry, the Beloved Country

    Alan Paton

    …social work stemmed in part from his conversion to the Anglican faith and his growing interest in racial justice. When his first novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, was published in…

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    Your Most Humble Servant

    Shirley Graham

    …earning a bachelor’s degree in music (1934) and a master’s degree in music history (1935) with an emphasis on Africa. In addition to her studies as a vocalist and composer,…

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    The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    Mohsin Hamid

    Mohsin Hamid was born in Lahore, Pakistan. After completing his schooling in Pakistan, Hamid attended Princeton University, where he graduated summa cum laude with a degree from the Woodrow Wilson…

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    Mississippi

    James W. Silver

    …change and causes social paralysis. “Thus the Mississippian, who prides himself on his individuality, lives in a climate where nonconformity is forbidden, where the white man is not free, where…

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    The Boat

    Nam Le

    From a Colombian slum to the streets of Tehran, seven characters in seven stories struggle with very particular Swords of Damocles in Pushcart Prize winner Le’s accomplished debut. In Halflead…

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    A Life in the Struggle

    George Lipsitz

    …be the first American historian of radical social protest who gives full range to the psychological complexities of the historical actors, without either scolding or essentially lionizing the chief protagonist….

  • Portrait of N. Scott Momaday
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    N. Scott Momaday

    …I like to celebrate that involvement in my writing.” From childhood, Momaday moved back and forth between Indian and non-Indian settings, completing his senior year of high school at a…

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    The Healing of a Nation

    David Loye

    …Marx and Engels, Durkheim, Freud, Piaget, Kohlberg, Gilligan and other pioneers in scientific moral studies in the light of new discoveries in brain research, feminist and gender studies, human prehistory,…

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    From Many Lands

    Louis Adamic

    …daily newspaper, Narodni Glas (The Voice of the Nation), that was published in New York. As an American soldier he participated in combat on the Western front during the First…

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    Tacky’s Revolt

    Vincent Brown

    …Black actors on screen and stage were limited in 1990 Los Angeles when Brown graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a minor in theater. “To the extent…

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    Yard Show: Poetry of Belonging, Nature, and Black Creative Placemaking

    September 20, 2025, 4:00 pm

    …nation’s largest urban farms, this event honors the Black midwestern tradition of the yard show—where everyday materials and personal memory transform outdoor spaces into vibrant, living art.  In Yard Show, Harrington reclaims…

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    Earth and High Heaven

    Gwethalyn Graham

    …25, in 1938, she won her first Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction for her novel Swiss Sonata. After Earth and High Heaven, Gwethalyn wrote for Saturday Night, Chatelaine, and…

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    The Trees

    Percival Everett

    …than us.” Born in 1956 in Ft. Gordon, Georgia, Everett grew up with his sister Denise in Columbia, South Carolina, where his father Dr. Percival Leonard Everett practiced dentistry, and…