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    2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony

    September 27, 2024, 6:30 pm

    …82 surrounding the Maltz Performing Arts Center. View the parking map here. Tickets are free on a first come, first served basis, but registration is required.  Reserve your ticket You…

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    Memorial Drive

    Natasha Trethewey

    …overwhelming when it unfolds. I also want to stress her book is a compelling portrait of race in America, from the 1960s on. It’s a thrilling addition to American literature…

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    The Negro Family in the United States

    E. Franklin Frazier

    Howard University Professor E. Franklin Frazier’s 1939 book, The Negro Family in the United States, was the first comprehensive study of the family life of African Americans, beginning with colonial-era…

  • Cover of Amazing Grace
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    Amazing Grace

    Jonathan Kozol

    …different communities of the South Bronx. In particular, he speaks often to Reverend Overall, known as Mother Martha to Anthony and the other children that attend her church. What is…

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    The Abandonment of the Jews

    David S. Wyman

    …did little to prevent the massacre, refusing asylum to shiploads of Jewish refugees and failing to order the bombing of railway lines leading to Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other concentration camps….

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    The Women of Plums

    Dolores Kendrick

    …but how plain country women, resisting self-pity, sustained dreams and compassion: “Soon I’ll go for a stroll/ in my blue silk dress,/ go into town/ and buy myself a plum,/…

  • Portrait of Adrienne Kennedy
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    Adrienne Kennedy

    …Jean in Concert in 1996. Among Kennedy’s many honors are the American Academy of Arts and Letters award and the Guggenheim fellowship. She has been commissioned to write works for…

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    The Lost Cities of Africa

    Basil Davidson

    Combining archeological evidence and scholarly research, Davidson traces the exciting development of the rich kingdoms of the lost cities of Africa, fifteen hundred years before European ships first came to…

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    African Ark

    Carol Beckwith

    American photographer Carol Beckwith and Australian photographer Angela Fisher discovered their common pursuit upon their chance meeting in Kenya in 1978: to understand and depict the richness of African culture…

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    Gunnar Myrdal and America’s Conscience

    Walter A. Jackson

    …came to argue that the “Negro problem” was really a “white problem,” a moral dilemma of a most complex sort that had not only economic dimensions but cultural, political, and…

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    Random Family

    Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

    …of benefits, only compounding a desperate situation. They see teenaged drug dealers with incredible organizational and financial skills, 13-year-old girls having babies to keep their boyfriends interested, older women reminiscing…

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    Death Does Not End at the Sea

    Gbenga Adesina

    …the Sea explores the complexity of elusive citizenship, an immigrant’s brokenhearted prayer for a new beginning, a chorus of elegies, and a cosmic love song between the living and the…

  • Cover of Make Your Way Home
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    Make Your Way Home

    Carrie R. Moore

    …collection announces an extraordinary new talent in American fiction, inviting us all to examine how the past shapes our present—and how our present choices will echo for years to come….

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    Black Metropolis

    St. Clair Drake

    …generalized analysis of black migration, settlement, community structure, and black-white race relations in the early part of the twentieth century, but also tell us what has changed in the last…

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    The !Kung San

    Richard Borshay Lee

    …means to understanding the form of human life that has been obscured by the developments and complications of societies during the last few thousand years. Richard Borshay Lee is a…

  • Portrait of Derek Walcott
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    Derek Walcott

    …Trinidad Theater Workshop, and his plays have been produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and the Negro Ensemble Company. Dream on Monkey…

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    The Dew Breaker

    Edwidge Danticat

    …that they believe he’s still pursuing them. (A “dew breaker,” we learn, is a government functionary who comes in the early morning to arrest someone or to burn a house…

  • Cover of The Dreyfus Case
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    The Dreyfus Case

    Louis Snyder

    …involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent. Sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly having communicated French…

  • Events

    Literary Cleveland: Inkubator Writing Conference featuring Colson Whitehead

    September 10 – September 12, 2026

    …excellence, and amplify diverse voices. The 2026 conference will be led by keynote speaker Colson Whitehead under the theme “Freedom is a community” in connection with the Ohio Celebrates Toni…

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    Black Like Me

    John Howard Griffin

    …fifteen hours daily under an ultraviolet lamp. To complete the illusion, Griffin used dyes to cover uneven areas and closely cut his hair. He also shaved the back of his…