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  • Portrait of Ishmael Reed
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    Ishmael Reed

    …won the Chancellor’s Award for Community Service and saw his name floated as a mayoral candidate. Still, Reed’s sensibility stands resolutely with the Black working class. “We do have a…

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    The 90th Anniversary Celebration

    September 20, 2025, 9:00 am

    Saturday’s AWBA events start at the Martin L. King, Jr. Branch of the Cleveland Public Library with an opening keynote and complimentary refreshments, followed by a series of rich conversations…

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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

    A. Van Jordan combines the tragic poignancy of the blues with the cinematic sweep of a documentary in his deeply humane and highly imaginative second book, M·A·C·N·O·L·I·A, which focuses on…

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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

    …violence: “Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear.” Not a simple political allegory, Paton’s novel contains layers of social and spiritual complexity…

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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

    …on Citizens Council charges ranging from practicing communism to insulting a Confederate general’s memory. In Mississippi, his has been a lonely battle. James W. Silver was a brave professor at…

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    The Boat

    Nam Le

    …Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice,” features a Vietnamese character named Nam who is struggling to complete his Iowa Writer’s Workshop master’s as his father comes for…

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    A Life in the Struggle

    George Lipsitz

    …events of Perry’s life of commitment and illumines the social and political changes and conflicts that have convulsed the United States during the past fifty years. George Lipsitz is Professor…

  • 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

    …and the systems dynamics of human cultural evolution. He is currently completing several books on this subject. Loye’s publications include articles in Behavioral Science, Futures, Technological Forecasting and Social Change,…

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    From Many Lands

    Louis Adamic

    …the Croatian fishing community of San Pedro, California. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1918. At first he worked as a manual laborer and later at a Yugoslavian…

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    Tacky’s Revolt

    Vincent Brown

    …African American Studies at Harvard University. Brown’s book is a groundbreaking investigation into the roots, combatants, cartography and reverberations of the largest slave revolt in the 18th Century British Atlantic…

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

    September 20, 2025, 4:00 pm

    Join us at Ohio City Farm for a poetry reading and cultural gathering with acclaimed writer Janice N. Harrington, celebrating her Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winning collection, Yard Show. Set amidst one of the…

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    Earth and High Heaven

    Gwethalyn Graham

    …writer at a time when few Canadian novelists were creating works in this vein, and was a remarkably accomplished and inspired woman who defied convention and challenged contemporary prejudicial thinking….

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    The Trees

    Percival Everett

    combination mystery, thriller, police procedural and absurdist comedy.” The creator has two dozen books to his credit, including a 2021 Pulitzer finalist “Telephone.” Sometimes he chafes at their parsing. “Apparently…

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    All That She Carried

    Tiya Miles

    …D.C.  “I felt compelled to write about it,” Miles said during a 2021 Harvard Radcliffe Institute talk. “It was so beautiful and terrible and concentrated and real, that I almost…

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    Cuyahoga County Public Library: Author Nina Willner  

    September 1 – September 1, 2026

    …time from her home in Washington DC.  The Boys in the Light follows the parallel journeys of Company D and Eddie Willner, the author’s father, as they are caught up…