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Faderman crystalizes this trajectory in the words of activist Frank Kameny: ‘We started with nothing, and look what we have wrought!’

So I found myself going to this place with the smell of brand-new books, and I could take any book I wanted. It was amazing! I used to go there, and read and read and read. That was a transformative experience.

by Gary Stonum In electoral politics you must choose one candidate. In identity politics, it is often the same. As…

Edwidge Danticat began her remarks in Cleveland by drawing attention to another artist, the painter Jacob Lawrence, whose migration series…

Readers wondering what to pick up this spring can crack any of the six books just awarded the National Book…

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is sponsoring “Good Luck Soup” at this year’s Cleveland International Film Festival. The two screenings are…

Spread over the opening pages of Angela Flournoy’s “The Turner House” is a family tree, its branches enumerating the 61…

Join us for the world premiere of “Good Luck Soup,” a 72-minute documentary on the experiences of Cleveland’s Hashiguchi family…

Pat Conroy, the Southern novelist and storyteller, was buried from St. Peter Catholic Church in Beaufort, S.C., surrounded by almost…

Of the five prompts for the 2016 Martin Luther King essay contest, Case Western Reserve University senior Shadi Admadmehrabi selected…

In its second season, ABC’s “Black-ish” has hit its stride. Now comes the best evidence of its ability to create…

What to do when Fox News host Bill O’Reilly calls you out on his show, labeling you a “race-baiter”? If…

Almost a year before Matt de la Pena won the latest Newbery Medal—the highest honor in children’s literature—he told National…

When Jericho Brown won his Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, he spoke of his awe of Langston Hughes, calling his discovery of…

In March 2012, U.S. Representative Bobby Rush stood on the House floor dressed in a gray hooded sweatshirt, one month…

Marlon James begins his 2-minute video on racism with the following question: “Are you ‘non’ or are you ‘anti’?” Published…

As the chair of the National Book Critics Circle‘s nonfiction committee, our awards manager Karen R. Long had a steady…

  Come learn more about the Cleveland that helped shape Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Harvey Pekar. Teaching Cleveland has…

In a year characterized by racial urgency, the local Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest is expanding to accept entries…

by Ali McClain The beginning movements of this essay began with a complex question: Which author’s reading from the 80th…