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NewsRoxane Gay On Being A Public Intellectual In The Age Of Social Media
Twitter was made for pithy public intellectuals like Roxane Gay. Nearly 100,000 people follow the author and professor for her…
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NewsREVIEW: “The Education of Kevin Powell”
Violence permeates nearly every page of “The Education of Kevin Powell.” Neighborhood boys, relatives, authority figures and even the author…
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NewsBringing Maya Angelou’s Poetry To Single Moms In Cleveland
One of my favorite Maya Angelou quotes—one I love so much that I gave all my friends an illustrated copy…
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The Incredible Staying Power Of James McBride’s “The Color of Water”
by Gail Arnoff, adjunct professor, John Carroll University The first time I read The Color of Water, I was deep…
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NewsAuthor Daniel Mendelsohn On Writing And Discovering The Holocaust Anew
Cultural critic Daniel Mendelsohn paused in Cleveland this October before his written remarks to take in the stunning, restored Temple-Tifereth…
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NewsPoet Eugene Gloria Brings Discussion On Identity To Hiram College
Tom Pantic, a junior at Hiram College in Ohio, wanted to know how poet Eugene Gloria felt about being put…
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NewsREVIEW: “A Ballerina’s Tale: The Incredible Rise Of Misty Copeland”
“A Ballerina’s Tale” is a delightfully intimate portrait of Misty Copeland—full of close-ups, uncomfortable silence, and peeks behind the curtain…
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NewsWATCH: Highlights From Our 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Ceremony
This past September, Jericho Brown, Marlon James, Marilyn Chin and Richard S. Dunn accepted their 2015 Anisfield-Wolf awards at a…
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NewsWATCH: Richard S. Dunn, 2015 Winner Of Anisfield-Wolf Prize: “It Is A Tremendous Honor”
Richard S. Dunn spent 40 years researching and writing “A Tale of Two Plantations,” a scrupulous, revelatory archival investigation of…
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NewsWATCH: Marlon James On Winning The 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Prize: “My Whole Life Has Been Shaped By Anisfield-Wolf”
It was a brief passage in “Sula,” Toni Morrison‘s 1973 novel, that changed Marlon James‘ entire life: in it, Sula…
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2015 TV 3: RTA Public Art
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NewsArtwork Inspired By Anisfield-Wolf Winners Coming Soon To Cleveland’s Public Transit
Clevelanders feeling uninspired on their daily commute will soon have one route infused with a new literary landscape. …
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NewsREAD: Adrian Matejka’s New Jean-Michel Basquiat-Inspired Poem, “& Later,”
Take a look at Jean-Michel Basquiat’s mesmerizing 1984 painting “Trumpet.” It inspired a new poem from Adrian Matejka that he…
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NewsIncoming CWRU Students Get A Lesson In “Stereotype Threat”
Claude Steele, 69, has spent his professional life thinking about stereotypes. He knows how easily we drop into a defensive…
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NewsCollege-Bound Cleveland Teens Now Published Authors
Sarah Marcus, an English teacher at Saint Martin de Porres high school and local poet, spends her days engaging her…
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NewsREAD: Jericho Brown’s Striking New Poem, “The Tradition”
Poet Jericho Brown, winner of an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award this year, has written a 14-line poem that begins with the…
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Meet Our 2015 Winners In And Around Cleveland This September
Anisfield-Wolf award winners are—almost by definition—civic minded. They continue a generous tradition of adding extra public conversations each September in…
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NewsNew Nina Simone Documentary Introduces You To The Artist You Thought You Knew
“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me—no fear,” Nina Simone wistfully told an interviewer in 1968. “If I could…
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NewsMeeting In The Middle: Intersectionality At The Foundation Center’s “Rising Tide: Remix”
LaTosha Brown, jazz singer and project director of Grantmakers for Southern Progress, told a story on herself: Having gleefully decided…
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NewsHenry Louis Gates Jr. Remembers Rev. Clementa Pinckney
In a poignant op-ed for The New York Times, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. recalls his time spent…