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Joyce Carol Oates’ Latest Novel, “The Accursed,” Has Fans Buzzing
March 18, 2013
Chances are, Joyce Carol Oates’ latest work is unlike anything you’ve ever read before. “The Accursed” takes readers on a…
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Civil Rights Icon Andrew Young Jr. On 50th Anniversary of “Letter From Birmingham Jail”
March 14, 2013
Boston—U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young turns 81 this week. He was barely into his 30s when he traveled with the Rev….
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“Warmth Of Other Suns” Named The 2013 Selection For Chicago’s City-Wide Book Club
March 13, 2013
With so much negative news spilling out of Chicago each day, we’re happy to see at least one bright spot…
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Harriet Tubman, American Hero
March 11, 2013
March 10th, 2013 was the 100th anniversary of the death of Harriet Tubman, a woman whose name is synonymous with…
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Anisfield-Wolf Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. Has Portrait Unveiled At National Portrait Gallery
March 8, 2013
We’ve long felt honored to have Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of the nation’s most preeminent African American scholars, as…
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REVIEW: Does Mohsin Hamid’s “How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia” Deliver?
March 5, 2013
Somewhere, a canny business professor may be plotting to put Mohsin Hamid’s astringent new novel into an MBA course. It…
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Edwidge Danticat Lends Her Pen To The Film, “Girl Rising”
March 4, 2013
It’s something that most of us in America take for granted—the right to an education. We don’t think about what…
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Toni Morrison Shares What Mistakes She Made With “The Bluest Eye”
March 1, 2013
We were thrilled to receive an invitation to participate in Toni Morrison’s first live digital book signing, courtesy of Google…
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Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas Brings Immigration Debate To Cleveland
February 26, 2013
The audience was sparse for immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas. As it scattered into the seats of the Ohio Theatre…
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VIDEO: Kwame Anthony Appiah Shares What Winning An Anisfield-Wolf Award Meant To Him
February 25, 2013
In what we hope will become an ongoing series, we’ll be sitting down with Anisfield-Wolf winners to hear their thoughts…
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Richard Blanco And Elizabeth Alexander Share Their Experience As Inaugural Poets
February 22, 2013
For the first time in history, two inaugural poets shared the same stage and spoke about what the experience meant…
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Are There Any Books You Wouldn’t Want Your Children To Read?
February 20, 2013
Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel, Beloved, took home the Anisfield-Wolf award for fiction in 1988. In it, a slave, unwilling to…
