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    Years of Infamy

    Michi Weglyn

    …countries were exported to the U.S.” In this latter regard, Weglyn was 20 years ahead of her time, as the movement is just now gaining momentum to give redress to…

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    CIFF STREAMS + AWBA Film Selections

    September 29 – October 4, 2020

    …a pre-recorded, moderated conversation between the director and/or documentary subject(s) and Cleveland State University professor, Eric Siler. These conversations will stream immediately following the film, there is no need to…

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    Deacon King Kong

    James McBride

    …“Victory” tour.  “It was terrible fiction,” McBride told The New York Times, “but I just needed a way out. I wasn’t a guy built to write about entertainment.” But McBride could…

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    The Trees

    Percival Everett

    …people need categories,” Everett told Yogita Goyal of the Los Angeles Review of Books. “I ignore them. . . I never speak to what my work might mean. If I…

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    All That She Carried

    Tiya Miles

    …“represented the message of that independence, that was being conveyed to Ashley.”  As a scholar, Miles needed her own resourcefulness to surmount the paucity of documents about Rose and Ashley…

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    One Nation

    Wallace Stegner with the Editors of Look

    …awarded the National Medal of the Arts in 1992. More than many of his contemporaries, Stegner entered public discourse, voicing strong warnings about environmental destruction and the need for conservation…

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    Cuyahoga County Public Library: Author Chuck Klosterman

    September 23 – September 23, 2026

    …history. It is not, nor does it claim to be, the greatest book ever written about rock and roll. But it’s probably the last one that ever needs to be written.   The

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    Evangelist of Race

    Geoffrey G. Field

    …greatest need has given birth to a Hitler is proof of vitality….” And not long before he died in January 1927, Hitler and Goebbels stood near to tears at his…

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    Assimilation in American Life

    Milton M. Gordon

    …suggestions for the achievement of a healthy balance among societal, subgroup, and individual needs. Assimilation in American Life was awarded the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and…

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    The Negro College Graduate

    Charles S. Johnson

    …African American Experience, Second Edition. Oxford African-American Studies Center http://www.oxfordaasc.com/article/anb/1400323 Accessed July 28, 2017. Gasman states that the Chicago School emphasized the need to “integrate sociological theory with empirical evidence…

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    Isabel Allende

    …ear for stories, an unhappy childhood, and a strange family. (With relatives as weird as mine there is no need to invent anything. They alone provide all the material for…

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    Feeding Ghosts

    Tessa Hulls

    …at the heart of this remarkable volume: the gnawing need to tell them and the hunger to hear them. Across three generations of the women in her family, Hulls’ describes…

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    The Civilization of the Goddess

    Marija Gimbutas

    …that we need a change of values, this work questions the precept that Western civilization has always been equated with male domination and warfare. The message is that for thousands…

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    A Brief History of Seven Killings

    Marlon James

    …angle on violence, drugs, corruption, tenderness and cruelty. “I hate politics,” Burgess says. “And I hate that I have to know.” Readers of James’ fiction find they need to know….

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    Simple Takes a Wife

    Langston Hughes

    needs and emotions of the black world…. Arguably, Langston Hughes was black America’s most original poet. Certainly he was black America’s most representative writer and a significant figure in world…

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    Charlayne Hunter-Gault

    …Robben Island prison in South Africa. But the mango-tree climbing tomgirl, whose Florida grandmother required her to memorize a Bible verse a day, needed to scale journalism school first. While…

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    Warrant for Genocide

    Norman Cohn

    the Holocaust: civilization needed to be rescued from this dark, earthbound race by the “world of good, of light, incarnated in blond, blue-eyed people” marching under the sun-god’s symbol, the

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

    September 28, 2024, 11:00 am

    “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair. No place for self-pity. No need for silence. No room for fear. We speak, we…

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    Amazing Grace

    Jonathan Kozol

    …solace to those who seek it, feeds many of the children in the neighborhood, and will take anyone to the hospital that needs to go. Mrs. Washington knows far too…

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    Bunk

    Kevin Young

    …response to Bunk: “There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want.” Young’s roots lie in poetry, which he began writing…