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Joseph Earl Thomas is a writer from Frankford whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in VQR, N+1, Gulf Coast, The Offing, and The Kenyon Review. He has…

M.W. Bychowski is an Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University, teaching courses on transgender and intersex history, disability…

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. He is the author of fourteen books…

Steven Pinker is often hailed for his ability to use wit and pop culture to make arcane concepts of language…

Joyce Carol Oates has often expressed an intense nostalgia for the time and place of her childhood, and much of…

Rita Dove, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, has received numerous literary and academic honors, among…

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African…

One of the most surprising things about “Good Trouble,” a new documentary on Georgia Congressman John Lewis’ six decades in…

Join us October 1 to toast the 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards authors and their brilliant books. WVIZ/PBS ideastream will produce,…

Enjoy this reimagined ceremony turned documentary, streaming now. It is hosted by Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. and features…

Four Anisfield-Wolf Book Award-winning authors — including two from our 2020 class — took home hardware from this year’s Los Angeles…

“I was meant to be here,” 11-year-old Amia said as she twirled around the state capitol building in Sacramento, California….

An innovative virtual exhibition at Case Western Reserve University selects and showcases new local responses to Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards writing.

Kamden Hilliard — a poet who has lived in Hawai’i, southern California, New York City, Hong Kong, Iowa and South…

The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 85th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2020 recipients of the only…

I chose English because no one in my family or friends knew it – no one I spoke to could read what I wrote. I myself did not know the language. It was a parallel reality, an insanely beautiful freedom. It still is.

As a scholar and writer, his footprint is vast, and no one, since the great W.E.B. Du Bois, has done more to reframe the narrative of his field away from the ‘Lost Cause’ myth of white supremacy, toward interracial democracy, truth, and justice.

This book is about the women and men who found themselves on the front lines of the greatest moral battle of our time, the struggle to prove that—despite differences of skin color, gender, ability or custom—humanity is one undivided thing.

My parents speak two different Bantu languages, and even my sister and I speak different languages; so, we all speak to each other in English. We speak Nyanja, Namwanga, Mambwe and Bemba. I tend, when I think in Zambian words, to think in Bemba, not Nyanja.

We have cancelled the March 30 reading by Peter Ho Davies and announcement of our 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winners,…