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    Generations of Captivity

    Ira Berlin

    …African American culture and society. He is the founder of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project, which he directed until 1991. The project’s multi-volume Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation…

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    The Known World

    Edward P. Jones

    …an educated black slave-owner, the widow of a well-loved young farmer named Henry, whose parents had bought their own freedom, and then freed their son, only to watch him buy…

  • Portrait of Nell Irvin Painter
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    Nell Irvin Painter

    …migration of Southern Black people to Kansas in 1879. Amidst the false freedom Reconstruction offered, Painter documented how thousands of rural Black people from Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Tennessee discerned it was…

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    Sonia Sanchez

    …84 years calling all types of people toward freedom and dignity with her pen and her voice. Sanchez is celebrated for elevating the performative aspect of language, its musicality and…

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    Ake

    Wole Soyinka

    …commentator, critic, and theorist of art and culture. Above all, he has remained a responsible citizen committed to the values of human freedom, truth, and justice. “Social commitment” he remarks,…

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    The Struggle for Equality

    James M. McPherson

    …Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, Crossroads of Freedom (which was a New York Times bestseller), Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men…

  • Portrait of Orlando Patterson
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    Orlando Patterson

    …Patterson has written globally influential books on slavery and its opposite pole, freedom. His works are profoundly interdisciplinary, mining comparative histories and insisting on the complex significance of culture. In…

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    CIFF + AWBA Streams Film Selections

    September 27 – October 3, 2021

    Viewers will have the opportunity to stream free Cleveland International Film Festival documentaries, all with an Anisfield-Wolfian flavor, from September 27-October 3. Coupled with each film will be an in-depth…

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    Literary Cleveland Inkubator Community Events

    September 14 – September 15, 2024

    Literary Cleveland’s Inkubator Writing Conference is one of the largest free writing conferences in the country, providing workshops, craft talks, panel discussions, readings, and more to empower writers, celebrate literary…

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    Tacky’s Revolt

    Vincent Brown

    …his own freedom in 1766: when you enslave people “you compel them to live with you in a state of war.” The author joins Equiano in seeing slavery as a…

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    Of Fear and Strangers

    George Makari

    …Anisfield-Wolf Juror Steven Pinker notes. “Very few seek to understand it as a phenomenon to be studied and analyzed. ‘Of Fear and Strangers’ does that, free of cliché and jargon….

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    Literary Cleveland: Inkubator Writing Conference featuring Colson Whitehead

    September 10 – September 12, 2026

    Literary Cleveland’s Inkubator Writing Conference is one of the largest free writing conferences in the country, providing workshops, craft talks, panel discussions, readings, and more to empower writers, celebrate literary…

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    In the Language of My Captor

    Shane McCrae

    …of My Captor, is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity. In its three sections, the reader finds prose memoir and poems in historical persona, including the voice…

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    Random Family

    Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

    …how demanding poverty is. Her prose is plain and unsentimental, blessedly jargon-free, and including street talk only when one of her subjects wants to “conversate.” This fine work deserves attention…

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    To Sir, With Love

    E.R. Braithwaite

    …Teaching became the cure to set him free. Braithwaite is placed in a classroom full of rude, obnoxious children, but little does he know that these are the children who…

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    In the Mecca

    Gwendolyn Brooks

    …the African American struggle for freedom. Her 1960 collection of poems, The Bean Eaters, contains poems about lynching, the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, and the integration…

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    Make Your Way Home

    Carrie R. Moore

    …means when God stops speaking to her. And at the very end of the South as we know it, two sisters seek to escape North to freedom, to promises of…

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    Matthew Delmont at Cuyahoga Community College for Common Reading program

    February 13 – February 14, 2024

    …are free and will take place on the East, Westshore, Western and Metro campuses. Tri-C’s Common Reading Program builds community and fosters intellectual engagement by drawing faculty and students together…

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    Justice in South Africa

    Albie Sachs

    …service. Even still, Sachs wrote The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter (1990) a year later. Thereafter, he resumed his teaching career at Columbia University and founded the South African…

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    The 90th Anniversary Celebration

    September 20, 2025, 9:00 am

    …literary landscape. Mac’s Backs is the official book seller for this event.   Registration is free but required. There will be a standby line at the venue; if there is available…