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REVIEW: “The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death” By Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead will be 45 this year, and his latest book invites readers along on a midlife road trip, “The…
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As Search For Nigeria School Girls Continues, Wole Soyinka’s Urging To Fight For Education Remains Poignant
Last September, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka spoke passionately about the global “contest between barbarism and enlightenment” around educating children. His…
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Will British Period Piece “Belle” Resonate With Moviegoers?
When screenwriter Misan Sagay visited the storied Scone Palace in Scotland, an 18th century painting of a pair of aristocratic…
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New Poetry Anthology Moves Grown Men To Tears — And That Is Precisely The Point
Anthologies are tricky – and a new one called “Poems That Make Grown Men Cry” might seem like a gimmick….
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“Half Of A Yellow Sun” Nigerian Release Delayed By Censors
Two weeks after Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chiwetel Ejiofor walked the red carpet at the Lagos premiere of “Half Of…
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“The Best Book Describing the South” That Most Have Never Read
When Theodore Rosengarten won the National Book Award in 1975 for “All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw,” he…
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Do You Have Your Ticket To The African-American Philanthropy Summit? #GivingHasNoColor
Twenty years ago, Charlotte-based consultant Valaida Fullwood encountered philanthropy close to home. Her 70-year-old aunt, Dora Atlas, right around the…
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Even After Brandeis University Dispute, Advocate Ayaan Hirsi Ali Won’t Be Silenced
The feminist writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali lived out a new chapter of her controversial public life this month when Brandeis…
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For Janet Mock, Storytelling Serves As Activism For The Transgender Community
In early February, Facebook rolled out 56 new gender identities for user profiles. Selections such as “pangender” and “two-spirit” now…
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A Look Back At The Rwandan Genocide: 20 Years Later, What Have We Learned?
This spring, as Rwanda commemorates the 1994 genocide that extinguished more than a million of its citizens, a nation assesses…
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Wins Peabody Award For “Many Rivers To Cross” Documentary
Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.— who served as executive producer, host, and writer for “The African-Americans: Many Rivers to Cross”…
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New Poetry Collection From Kevin Powers Places War’s Aftermath In Verse
“Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting” publishes this week, the first collection of poetry from Anisfield-Wolf fiction winner…