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[Call For Submissions] 2016 MLK Essay Contest
In a year characterized by racial urgency, the local Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest is expanding to accept entries…
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When Children Feel Invisible: Joesiah Poulson at the 80th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
by Ali McClain The beginning movements of this essay began with a complex question: Which author’s reading from the 80th…
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[In Their Words] Examining The Runaway Success Of A Brief History Of Seven Killings
by Dr. Anand Bhat In 2007, when I asked my driver in Caracas if evangelical Christianity had been making its…
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Roxane Gay On Being A Public Intellectual In The Age Of Social Media
Twitter was made for pithy public intellectuals like Roxane Gay. Nearly 100,000 people follow the author and professor for her…
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Professor Kenneth Warren Visits Cleveland For Talk On Race, Literature, And #BlackLivesMatter
Kenneth Warren, a University of Chicago literature professor, asked a gathering of students and faculty in Cleveland this fall to…
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REVIEW: “The Education of Kevin Powell”
Violence permeates nearly every page of “The Education of Kevin Powell.” Neighborhood boys, relatives, authority figures and even the author…
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Bringing Maya Angelou’s Poetry To Single Moms In Cleveland
One of my favorite Maya Angelou quotes—one I love so much that I gave all my friends an illustrated copy…
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The Incredible Staying Power Of James McBride’s “The Color of Water”
by Gail Arnoff, adjunct professor, John Carroll University The first time I read The Color of Water, I was deep…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates On Dismantling White Supremacy: “Any Definition Of Race Always Depends Upon Power”
Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates is very clear on his role: Dig for the truth and get out of the way. “If…
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Author Daniel Mendelsohn On Writing And Discovering The Holocaust Anew
Cultural critic Daniel Mendelsohn paused in Cleveland this October before his written remarks to take in the stunning, restored Temple-Tifereth…
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Poet Eugene Gloria Brings Discussion On Identity To Hiram College
Tom Pantic, a junior at Hiram College in Ohio, wanted to know how poet Eugene Gloria felt about being put…
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REVIEW: “A Ballerina’s Tale: The Incredible Rise Of Misty Copeland”
“A Ballerina’s Tale” is a delightfully intimate portrait of Misty Copeland—full of close-ups, uncomfortable silence, and peeks behind the curtain…