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EventsGreat Lakes African American Writers Conference: Deesha Philyaw Keynote
Deesha Philyaw will deliver the 2021 Langston Hughes Literary keynote at the 2021 GLAAWC conference at 11 am. Her debut…
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EventsThe City Club of Cleveland: Vincent Brown and Marlon James
Novelist Marlon James and Historian Vincent Brown will crack open their ideas in a unique conversation centered on Jamaica. The…
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What is the schedule for CIFF Streams + Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards film events?For a list of film events and their…
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NewsWith “On Juneteenth,” Annette Gordon-Reed Makes The Holiday And Its Texas Origins Personal
The holiday of Juneteenth is deepening its mark on American history. The U.S. Senate voted unanimously this week to make…
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NewsA Foundational Friendship between Edith Anisfield Wolf and Amy Loveman Created and Nurtured the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
By Lisa Nielson Almost 90 years ago, two women quietly cooked up what is to this day the only juried…
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PodcastsEpisode 8: Historian Charles King
She [Zora Neale Hurston] was herself, like all these individuals, a contrarian. And she wondered during the Second World War,…
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PodcastsEpisode 7: Poet Marilyn Chin
“She used to sing Chinese poetry to me, and she was illiterate, but she had memorized hundreds of poems and…
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PodcastsEpisode 6: Historian Lillian Faderman
“There was just no decent literature, no history about people like me. And finally, in the 1970s the atmosphere was…
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PodcastsEpisode 5: Novelist Peter Ho Davies
“It’s hard to joke your way out of spaces of physical violence that we’re seeing many people having to struggle…
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News“Landfall” Puts Spotlight on Puerto Rico Residents’ Leadership In The Aftermath of Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria scythed more than 3,000 souls on Puerto Rico, according to the official death toll. Among that number was…
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NewsIntroducing Our Class of 2021
The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 86th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2021 recipients of the only…
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BookObit
I often failed at assimilation but learned all of the skills along the way through trial and error. Sometimes the people I wanted to assimilate with didn’t see me, but I still got the practice. I’m not saying it’s a positive thing. It just is. Therefore, I’m nobody, who are you? Yet, I’m also everybody.
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AuthorSamuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany, a science fiction icon and pioneer in gay literature, began his childhood in the living quarters atop…
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BookMemorial Drive
The year before I was old enough to drive, [my mother] let me practice steering the car on long stretches of empty highway. I’d reach across the center console and take the wheel, leaning into her, my back against her chest, following the arc of the sun west toward home.
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PodcastsEpisode 4: Novelist Namwali Serpell
All too often, African countries, African literatures, get thrown together and the differences between them are elided. What is Zambian…
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PodcastsEpisode 3: Poet Ilya Kaminsky
What I was trying to do being hard of hearing, was to navigate the questions of: At which point is…
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Education
The Music of Tommy Orange’s “There There”
Lisa Nielson is an Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. She has a PhD in historical musicology, with…
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PodcastsEpisode 2: Poet Sonia Sanchez
You know what I found out about my teaching? My teaching made me much more human. Some of the ideas…
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NewsAdd Our New Podcast, The Asterisk*, to Your Playlist
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is proud to present The Asterisk*, a new podcast hosted by Karen R. Long, manager of…
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PodcastsEpisode 1: Historian Eric Foner
“When somebody told me that they had just seen the Confederate flag on TV being carried around the Capitol, my…
