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VIDEO: What’s It Like To Be The Inaugural Poet?
January 18, 2013
On the eve of President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, Yale University hosted a live chat with Elizabeth Alexander, whose “Praise…
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Jonathan Kozol To Speak On Reducing Poverty With Dr. Cornel West And Tavis Smiley
January 16, 2013
1996 winner Jonathan Kozol will be speaking with Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West at the January 17th event, Vision…
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Isabel WIlkerson Describes Jim Crow Laws In The 1950s
January 14, 2013
In an Art Works podcast hosted by the National Endowment of the Arts, Isabel Wilkerson describes what life was like…
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We Can’t Get Enough Of Zora Neale Hurston
January 11, 2013
As we wrote before, Isabel Wilkerson has been educating her fans on the impact of the Great Migration by posting…
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What’s The Next Pick In Oprah’s Book Club?
January 9, 2013
We highlighted the reboot of Oprah’s book club (dubbed Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 as a nod to the newly added…
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Former Plain Dealer Book Editor, Karen Long, Joins Anisfield-Wolf Staff
January 7, 2013
We are thrilled to announce that Karen Long, until recently the book editor at the Plain Dealer, will be coming…
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VIDEO: Edwidge Danticat On Why Americans Don’t Know Haiti Beyond The Catastrophes
January 4, 2013
When we see Haiti in the news, it is often downtrodden and negative. Edwidge Danticant, our 2005 winner for fiction,…
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Five Books You Should Read First In 2013
January 2, 2013
With a new year comes new reading lists. We at Anisfield-Wolf rounded up some of the new and not-so-new books…
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Reflections On A New Year: Ralph Ellison Style
December 31, 2012
“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it…
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What Could This Blog Be In 2013?
December 28, 2012
As our first full year of blogging here is coming to a close, we at Anisfield-Wolf wanted to take a…
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Have You Seen “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”?
December 26, 2012
We’ve talked so much about Mohsin Hamid‘s The Reluctant Fundamentalist coming to the big screen next year and the wait…
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Junot Diaz Shares What’s On His Christmas Dinner Table
December 24, 2012
We’re keeping it light this week—we know everyone is busy with family and friends and the wonderfulness of the holiday…
