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New Televised Special Will Celebrate Our 2020 Award Recipients Oct 1
Join us October 1 to toast the 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards authors and their brilliant books. WVIZ/PBS ideastream will produce,…
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The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards are proud to be part of Cleveland Book Fest, an annual celebration of literature produced in…
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The 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony Televised Special
Enjoy this reimagined ceremony turned documentary, streaming now. It is hosted by Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. and features…
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Anisfield-Wolf Winning Authors Nab Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
Four Anisfield-Wolf Book Award-winning authors — including two from our 2020 class — took home hardware from this year’s Los Angeles…
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“We Are Radical Monarchs” Documentary Shows Young Girls Taking Flight In The Social Justice Realm
“I was meant to be here,” 11-year-old Amia said as she twirled around the state capitol building in Sacramento, California….
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New Exhibition Pulls Local Community Into The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Canon
An innovative virtual exhibition at Case Western Reserve University selects and showcases new local responses to Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards writing.
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Kamden Hilliard Named Second Anisfield-Wolf Fellow At Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Kamden Hilliard — a poet who has lived in Hawai’i, southern California, New York City, Hong Kong, Iowa and South…
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2020 IdeaStream: Winners Announcement
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2020 Press Release: Winners Announced
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Introducing Our Class Of 2020
The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 85th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2020 recipients of the only…
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Deaf Republic
I chose English because no one in my family or friends knew it – no one I spoke to could read what I wrote. I myself did not know the language. It was a parallel reality, an insanely beautiful freedom. It still is.
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Eric Foner
As a scholar and writer, his footprint is vast, and no one, since the great W.E.B. Du Bois, has done more to reframe the narrative of his field away from the ‘Lost Cause’ myth of white supremacy, toward interracial democracy, truth, and justice.
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Gods of the Upper Air
This book is about the women and men who found themselves on the front lines of the greatest moral battle of our time, the struggle to prove that—despite differences of skin color, gender, ability or custom—humanity is one undivided thing.
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The Old Drift
My parents speak two different Bantu languages, and even my sister and I speak different languages; so, we all speak to each other in English. We speak Nyanja, Namwanga, Mambwe and Bemba. I tend, when I think in Zambian words, to think in Bemba, not Nyanja.
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CANCELLED: Novelist Peter Ho Davies To Announce 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Winners March 30
We have cancelled the March 30 reading by Peter Ho Davies and announcement of our 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winners,…
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Honoring Toni Morrison With A “Gesture Of Love” On Her Birthday
A mere dozen miles from the site where Toni Morrison was born Chloe Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, a day-long gathering…
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What Henry Louis Gates Thinks About The “Beer Summit” Incident, 11 Years Later
Henry Louis Gates Jr. rarely speaks about one of his most publicized moments — the July 2009 arrest by Sgt….
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On Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation, These Two Anisfield-Wolf Titles Offer Reflection
Ten years after Edith Anisfield Wolf established the book prizes, Soviet troops advanced across southeastern Poland and liberated Auschwitz, the…
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Cleveland Residents Invited To Anisfield-Wolf Reading Series
Pull up a chair at Case Western Reserve University’s new reading seminar for a hearty discussion of four Anisfield-Wolf award-winning…