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Author David Livingstone Smith Speaks On Combating Dehumanization At CWRU
November 6, 2016
Philosopher David Livingstone Smith gave a lively preview of “Making Monsters: The Uncanny Powers of Dehumanization,” his forthcoming book, for…
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Catch An Encore Screening Of Cleveland International Film Festival Hit, “Romeo Is Bleeding”
November 3, 2016
The gritty documentary “Romeo is Bleeding” took home the top audience choice prize at this year’s Cleveland International Film Festival….
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Activist Bree Newsome On “Tearing Hatred From The Sky” And The Fight For Sustainable Social Justice Movements
October 31, 2016
Bree Newsome — the activist who brought down the Confederate flag flying outside the Columbia, S.C. capitol building in 2015 —…
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REVIEW: Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout” Deserves The Man Booker Prize And Then Some
October 26, 2016
Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout” took home the Man Booker Prize for 2016, making him the first U.S. author to win…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Salutes First Lady Michelle Obama In New York Times Style Magazine
October 19, 2016
The editors of the New York Times Style magazine invited four woman to write letters of appreciation to Michelle Obama…
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Author And Dancer Brian Seibert In Performance With Oberlin Student Chandler Browne
October 18, 2016
For the last event of the inaugural Cleveland Book Week, Brian Seibert rolled up his cuffs and gave the audience…
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Sociologist Orlando Patterson On African-Americans’ Profound Cultural Influence: “America Is Indelibly Blackish”
October 17, 2016
Orlando Patterson, the public intellectual and Harvard University sociologist, made a deep impression on his audiences in Cleveland in September….
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A Reflection On Growing Up In The Gay Revolution
October 12, 2016
by Lisa Nielson, Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. I was taking an internet break from my pile of…
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Author And Illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh Infuses Children’s Literature With Real World Messages
October 3, 2016
This Halloween, families can share a treat that lasts longer than candy corn: “Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of…
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VIDEO: Mary Morris On Winning 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Award For Fiction
September 29, 2016
Mary Morris spent close to two decades crafting her jazz-soaked Chicago novel, The Jazz Palace, winner of this year’s Anisfield-Wolf…
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VIDEO: Orlando Patterson On Winning The 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award
“America is indelibly black-ish,” sociologist Orlando Patterson asserted to the audience at Playhouse Square during this year’s awards ceremony. “Trying…
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VIDEO: Rowan Ricardo Phillips On Winning The 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Award For Poetry
September 28, 2016
Cleveland welcomed poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips to town by giving him a good sense of our hometown pride. Visiting only…
