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Connecting King And Soyinka: Some Things Were Meant To Be Looked At Differently
January 22, 2014
Kerrick Woyshner, 18, was a scholar in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf class, pioneered by Dr. Lisa Nielson at Case Western…
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Rare Recording Of Martin Luther King Jr’s Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Speech
January 20, 2014
Late last year, the New York State Museum in Albany received an ordinary package – reel-to-reel tapes donated by the…
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Reflections On Far From The Tree: Quiet, Beautiful and Different Children
January 17, 2014
Arjun Gopinath, 17, participated in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf class, pioneered by Dr. Lisa Nielson at Case Western Reserve University. …
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Shutting Down The School-to-Prison Pipeline
January 16, 2014
When Robert Runcie became the new superintendent for Broward County schools, a populous part of metropolitan Miami, Fla., he knew…
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What Race Means To Me: Being Chinese In A White America
January 9, 2014
Andrea Lau, 18, was a student scholar this past fall in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf course, pioneered by Dr. Lisa…
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“CommUniversity” – Bringing African-American Studies To The Masses
Affordable classes on African-American topics for anyone who wants to take them — that’s the gist of Professor Zachery Williams’…
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This Artist Spent An Entire Year Capturing The Beauty and Essence Of Powerful Women
January 3, 2014
Unlike most of us, illustrator Lisa Congdon kept her 2013 resolution, for the entire year. We—and the internet—are better for it. …
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Remembering Two Literary Heavyweights The World Lost In 2013
January 2, 2014
Almost 18 years ago in The New Yorker, Anisfield-Wolf Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. profiled the intellectual and novelist…
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An Unorthodox Writing Gift For Detroit
December 20, 2013
Two years ago, writers Toby Barlow and Sarah Cox got together to discuss Detroit. Negative headlines pounded the city’s reputation,…
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Congressman John Lewis Urges Cleveland State Graduates To “Be Good Citizens Of The World”
December 17, 2013
On the day Nelson Mandela’s body was lowered into the ground, Congressman John Lewis raised his voice half a world…
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Is Alumni Giving The Cure-All For What’s Ailing HBCUs?
December 12, 2013
When the Grambling State University football team refused to play this October, the eyes of collegiate sports turned to Louisiana…
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Meet John Anisfield, The Cleveland Philanthropist You Probably Haven’t Heard Of
December 9, 2013
Sharp-eyed Clevelanders can still spot John Anisfield’s name on the side of his old garment factory, which employed more than…