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Natasha Trethewey Brings Passion And Pain To Poetry Reading At Kent State University
April 24, 2018
Former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey began her talk at Kent State University by claiming kinship with the audience. “I…
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Kevin Young Strolls Through Black History In New Poetry Collection, “Brown”
April 17, 2018
James Brown. John Brown’s raid. Michael Brown. Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. These subjects braid through Kevin Young’s…
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New Toni Morrison Documentary, “The Foreigner’s Home,” Explores The Meaning Of Belonging
April 12, 2018
At 87, Toni Morrison is a direct woman. The Nobel laureate in literature has long contemplated her legacy, and the…
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Mary Morris Is Back With Latest Novel, “Gateway to the Moon”
April 10, 2018
With Gateway to the Moon, writer Mary Morris casts a new spell drawing water from some of her favorite wells. Her…
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Interview With Directors Adam Mazo and Ben Pender-Cudlip On Their New Film, “Dawnland”
April 6, 2018
Boston-based filmmaker Adam Mazo is quick to admit that he knew little about Native populations growing up in Minnesota. He’s…
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Introducing Our Class Of 2018
March 29, 2018
The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 83rd Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Marlon James, a 2015 Anisfield-Wolf honoree, made…
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“Evicted” Author Matthew Desmond On Fixing America’s Broken Housing System
March 22, 2018
Matthew Desmond thinks America can’t see itself clearly. “We’re the richest democracy with the worst poverty. There’s not another advanced…
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National Book Critics Circle Awards Toast The Best Of 2017
The thrill of writing as clear as water ran through this year’s National Book Critics Circle awards, bookended by the…
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New Documentary “Dawnland” Explores Only Truth And Reconciliation Commission In The U.S.
March 13, 2018
Can the United States transition “from being an occupier to being a neighbor”? So asks gkisedtanamoogk, a Native man living…
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Jill Lepore Shares Political Optimism For A Divided Nation During CWRU Talk
March 12, 2018
Jill Lepore is restless. The Harvard historian prefers to walk while she thinks, and stand when she talks. And so…
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Poet Leila Chatti Named The Inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow At Cleveland State University Poetry Center
March 9, 2018
Leila Chatti, a poet who grew up in Michigan, will be the first Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Writing and Editing, beginning…
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Professor Heather Shotton On Native Identity And Representation
February 27, 2018
As the #MeToo movement surges on, elevating the national conversation around sexual assault and gender inequality, Professor Heather Shotton believes…
