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For a stretch in the 1970s, television producer Norman Lear had nine shows on the air at once—with four in…

When I arrived as an undergraduate at Kent State University, I participated in Kupita, a week-long orientation for students of…

When Atlantic Monthly correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates’ spoke in Cleveland in August about reparations, he touched only briefly on the killing…

The biggest laugh during Ari Shavit’s serious, passionate talk about the Middle East came at the end, when a questioner…

When former poet laureate Rita Dove graced the stage of the Akron Civic Theater October 16, she took a minute…

Toledo attorney Lafayette Tolliver, 65, estimates there were fewer than 300 black students on the campus of Kent State University…

Half of a Yellow Sun is now available on iTunes and other video streaming services.  by Lisa Nielson  The film…

“When you’re not born in the U.S. and you’re a person of African descent, in some ways identifying as black…

New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow opens his memoir, “Fire Up In My Bones,” with a face full of…

“Cleveland has always been incredibly nice to me,” novelist Zadie Smith said as she took the podium at Case Western…

George Lamming, who spent decades as a leader of the Caribbean literary Diaspora, won our 2014 Lifetime Achievement award for…

Anisfield-Wolf winning novelist Laird Hunt capped his book tour for the newly-released “Neverhome” by returning to Cleveland this week, arriving…

Brooklyn, N.Y. — The Brooklyn Book Festival—a celebratory, cerebral, free event that runs one Sunday in September—attracted tens of thousands of readers,…

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is an intoxicating first book about intersecting lives in war-torn Chechnya. The novel begins as…

Ari Shavit, a columnist for Jerusalem’s daily newspaper Haaretz, spent five years writing My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of…

Adrian Matejka’s “The Big Smoke” is a nuanced, polyphonic book that explores the life of boxer Jack Johnson, the first…