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READ: Jericho Brown’s Striking New Poem, “The Tradition”
August 10, 2015
Poet Jericho Brown, winner of an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award this year, has written a 14-line poem that begins with the…
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Read Walter Mosley’s Love Letter To The Louisana That Shaped Him
August 3, 2015
Novelist Walter Mosley, the creator of the private investigator Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, has just published a ruminating essay called “Patter…
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REVIEW: Tamara Winfrey Harris Lends Depth To Black Womanhood In “The Sisters Are Alright”
July 23, 2015
About a year ago, I noticed a number of black women I follow online all wearing the same “Black Girls…
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Meet Our 2015 Winners In And Around Cleveland This September
July 16, 2015
Anisfield-Wolf award winners are—almost by definition—civic minded. They continue a generous tradition of adding extra public conversations each September in…
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REVIEW: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World And Me” Is A Blunt Examination Of Black Life In America
July 13, 2015
When a Missouri grand jury decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for killing 18-year-old Michael Brown, journalist Ta-Nehisi…
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New Nina Simone Documentary Introduces You To The Artist You Thought You Knew
July 3, 2015
“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me—no fear,” Nina Simone wistfully told an interviewer in 1968. “If I could…
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Meeting In The Middle: Intersectionality At The Foundation Center’s “Rising Tide: Remix”
June 24, 2015
LaTosha Brown, jazz singer and project director of Grantmakers for Southern Progress, told a story on herself: Having gleefully decided…
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Remembers Rev. Clementa Pinckney
June 19, 2015
In a poignant op-ed for The New York Times, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. recalls his time spent…
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Poet Richard Blanco And Activist Ruth Behar Work To Lift Cuba’s “Emotional Embargo”
June 12, 2015
Writer Ruth Behar and poet Richard Blanco have launched Bridges to/from Cuba, an ambitious collaborative fueled by 20 years of friendship. The…
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East Cleveland Women Use Poetry On The Path To Healing
June 11, 2015
by Ann Kowal Smith + Rachel Burstein This post was originally published on the Books@Work blog. Reading, writing and discussing…
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Author Isabel Wilkerson Brings Cleveland Connection To “The Warmth Of Other Suns”
June 9, 2015
Additional reporting by Tara Jefferson When Isabel Wilkerson comes to Cleveland, she sees Alabama. An authority on the Great Migration—the…
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Protests Over Chinese Censorship Target Book Expo America Events
June 5, 2015
This year, two strikingly opposed vistas marked Book Expo America, the largest annual book industry trade show. Shiny black stretch…
