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BookA Tale of Two Plantations
A scrupulous, revelatory archival investigation of some 2,000 people enslaved across three generations: roughly half on a Jamaican sugar plantation called Mesopotamia and half on Mount Airy, a Virginia tidewater plantation growing tobacco and grain.
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AuthorDavid Brion Davis
Davis’ influence was deep, having changed ‘traditional approaches to intellectual history by embedding ideas in social and political action and institutions.’
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BookThe New Testament
An assistant professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, Brown is celebrated for his intense musicality, lyrical clarity and muscular impact.
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NewsChang-rae Lee’s Literature Remains A “Sensorial Immersion” For Readers
Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow Lisa Nielson had the honor of introducing Chang-Rae Lee to the packed audience at the 2015 Writers…
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NewsDancer Pioneer Judith Jamison On Persistence And The Arts: “If The Door Won’t Open, Make Your Own Door”
Famed dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison warned a recent audience that she has a tendency to ramble: “I will be…
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NewsFour Things We Learned About Director Ava DuVernay From Her Keynote At SWSW
“They’re going to throw me in director’s jail,” director Ava DuVernay remembered thinking before premiering “Selma” at the American Film…
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NewsAri Shavit’s “My Promised Land” Headed To HBO In New Documentary
HBO will turn Ari Shavit’s My Promised Land into a television documentary, CEO and chairman Richard Pleper announced at the…
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NewsRita Dove’s Love Letter To Toni Morrison At NBCC: “No Words Can Fully Express What You’ve Meant To Me”
Poet Rita Dove introduced Toni Morrison—the only living American Nobel recipient in literature—with joy and grace and poetry at the…
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News“By Blood” Documentary Explores The Legal Battle Waging Between American Indians And Descendants Of Their Slaves
Just who is an American Indian? For hundreds of years, this riddle of identity has vexed the federal government and…
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NewsVIDEO: Arnold Rampersad On The Selected Letters Of Langston Hughes
Longtime biographer Arnold Rampersad said his new volume, The Selected Letters of Langston Hughes, reveals a “deeper, more complicated” man than…
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NewsHow Books@Work Program Allowed Readers To See Themselves In Isabel Wilkerson’s “The Warmth Of Other Suns”
by Rachel Burstein Our experience of a book can be changed—and enriched—when we read it alongside people who are different…
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NewsResearcher Richard Rothstein Makes Compelling Push To Address Modern Segregation At City Club Of Cleveland
In a popular U.S. high school history textbook, The Americans, there is only one sentence—in passive voice—on housing discrimination among…
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NewsHow To Improve Diversity In Children’s Literature – One Book At A Time
People of color make up close to 40 percent of the current U.S. population, so what would you do about…
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NewsHistorian Sarah Lewis On Creativity And Failure At Case Western Reserve University
August Wilson, winner of an Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement award in 2005, used to begin writing his plays on napkins to…
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NewsREVIEW: John Lewis Continues His “March,” Offers Handbook For Nonviolent Demonstrations
The second installment in March, Rep. John Lewis’ acclaimed graphic memoir trilogy on the civil rights movement, picks up where the…
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NewsREVIEW: “The Sense of Style” by Steven Pinker
by Terry Pederson If you dreaded English class and still stumble over there, their and they’re, then Steven Pinker’s “The…
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NewsQuiet Riots At The Ferguson Library: Beautiful Stories In The Midst Of Unrest
by Jasmine Banks My friend Kelly mentioned on Facebook she was headed to the Ferguson Municipal Library to help them process some…
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NewsREVIEW: “Patient” By Bettina Judd
It took three attempts before I could get past the first entry in Patient, an uncomfortable jaunt into America’s crippling disregard…
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News“No One Will Make This Beauty A Burden”: Poetry As A Response To Ferguson
Hours after authorities announced that the grand jury in Ferguson, Mo., would not indict police officer Darren Wilson for killing…
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NewsREVIEW: “Beyond the Lights” Avoids The Cliches, Puts New Stars In The Limelight
When Gina Prince-Bythewood last directed a big-budget film, Barack Obama had yet to be sworn in as president. Now she’s…