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Rare Slave Cabin To Become Crown Jewel Of New African American History Museum
May 20, 2013
Where can one find Nat Turner’s Bible, Emmet Till’s coffin and Harriet Tubman’s shawl? Answer: the Smithsonian National Museum of…
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“Geography Of Hate” Map Shows Where Most Hateful Tweeters Lurk
May 17, 2013
Students at Humboldt State University in northern California analyzed more than 11 months of Twitter data to locate the biggest…
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New PBS Series Spans 500 Years Of African-American History
May 15, 2013
Anisfield-Wolf jury chair Henry Louise Gates Jr. has been busy the past few months, filming episodes of his new PBS…
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Easy Rawlins Returns In Walter Mosley’s Latest Thriller
May 13, 2013
Anisfield-Wolf winner Walter Mosley gave his readers a true cliff hanger in his last Easy Rawlins book, 2007’s Blonde Faith….
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Advocacy Organization Pushes For “Mother’s Day Our Way”
May 10, 2013
Reacting to the blah, monochromatic nature of typical of Mother’s Day cards, Strong Families, an Alturas, California policy group, launched…
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New Film Recovers The Story Of Classical Music’s Forgotten Black Virtuoso
May 8, 2013
At age 2, Joshua Coyne was removed from his Kansas City home with broken legs and hips. His foster mother…
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VIDEO: Watch Andrew Solomon’s TEDMED Talk On Illness Versus Identity
May 6, 2013
Under the slogan “ideas worth spreading,” the annual TED conferences began in 1990, and have showcased a clutch of Anisfield-Wolf…
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Meet Eugene Gloria, 2013 Winner For Poetry
May 3, 2013
Eugene Gloria’s 2012 poetry collection, My Favorite Warlord, won this year’s Anisfield-Wolf prize for poetry. Born in Manila, Phillippines, Gloria uses My Favorite Warlord’s 35…
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Meet Kevin Powers, 2013 Winner For Fiction
May 1, 2013
The road home from war is a long journey to rediscover who you are. Author Kevin Powers, who signed up…
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Meet Andrew Solomon, 2013 Winner For Nonfiction
April 29, 2013
Culled from more than 40,000 pages of interview transcripts, Andrew Solomon‘s Far From The Tree takes an exhaustive look at families…
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Meet Laird Hunt, 2013 Winner For Fiction
April 26, 2013
Laird Hunt is the author of five novels and one short story collection. His latest book, Kind One, won the…
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Meet Wole Soyinka, 2013 Lifetime Achievement Winner
April 24, 2013
We’ll be spending this week exploring the lives and works of the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Award winners. Today we’re recognizing Wole…
