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NewsVIDEO: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Talks Feminism, Fashion, And Politics
Fresh off a feature on Beyonce’s secret album, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie stopped by HuffPost Live to talk about how her…
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NewsHost Of The Internet’s Most Lively Dinner Party, Ta-Nehisi Coates Commands The Room
At 38, Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior correspondent for The Atlantic’s online property, has become one of the nation’s foremost writers on…
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NewsRita Dove Lauded In New Documentary On Her Formative Years
Filmmaker Eduardo Montes-Bradley knew he wanted to make a film on Rita Dove. So the director of documentaries on former NAACP…
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Debating The Best Book Lists: Does Amazon’s “100 Books To Read In A Lifetime” Get It Right?
Wither the best book list? Inherently inane and crazy-making, these are also undeniably good conversation starters. Amazon has posted the…
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NewsMichelle Alexander On The Perils Of Mass Incarceration In The U.S.
In her influential best-seller, “The New Jim Crow,” law professor Michelle Alexander dissects the devastating racial consequences of “locking up…
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NewsWil Haygood Tells CWRU The Story Behind “The Butler” During Martin Luther King Convocation
Washington Post reporter Wil Haygood stood in the pulpit at the Amasa Stone Chapel on the Case Western Reserve University…
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NewsConnecting King And Soyinka: Some Things Were Meant To Be Looked At Differently
Kerrick Woyshner, 18, was a scholar in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf class, pioneered by Dr. Lisa Nielson at Case Western…
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NewsRare Recording Of Martin Luther King Jr’s Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Speech
Late last year, the New York State Museum in Albany received an ordinary package – reel-to-reel tapes donated by the…
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NewsReflections On Far From The Tree: Quiet, Beautiful and Different Children
Arjun Gopinath, 17, participated in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf class, pioneered by Dr. Lisa Nielson at Case Western Reserve University. …
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NewsShutting Down The School-to-Prison Pipeline
When Robert Runcie became the new superintendent for Broward County schools, a populous part of metropolitan Miami, Fla., he knew…
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News“CommUniversity” – Bringing African-American Studies To The Masses
Affordable classes on African-American topics for anyone who wants to take them — that’s the gist of Professor Zachery Williams’…
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NewsThis Artist Spent An Entire Year Capturing The Beauty and Essence Of Powerful Women
Unlike most of us, illustrator Lisa Congdon kept her 2013 resolution, for the entire year. We—and the internet—are better for it. …
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NewsRemembering Two Literary Heavyweights The World Lost In 2013
Almost 18 years ago in The New Yorker, Anisfield-Wolf Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. profiled the intellectual and novelist…
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NewsAn Unorthodox Writing Gift For Detroit
Two years ago, writers Toby Barlow and Sarah Cox got together to discuss Detroit. Negative headlines pounded the city’s reputation,…
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NewsCongressman John Lewis Urges Cleveland State Graduates To “Be Good Citizens Of The World”
On the day Nelson Mandela’s body was lowered into the ground, Congressman John Lewis raised his voice half a world…
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NewsIs Alumni Giving The Cure-All For What’s Ailing HBCUs?
When the Grambling State University football team refused to play this October, the eyes of collegiate sports turned to Louisiana…
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NewsMeet John Anisfield, The Cleveland Philanthropist You Probably Haven’t Heard Of
Sharp-eyed Clevelanders can still spot John Anisfield’s name on the side of his old garment factory, which employed more than…
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NewsHarlem Organization Lobbies For Street Named In Honor Of James Baldwin
The 2010 Census figures tallied Harlem’s black population at its lowest since the 1920s. Such broad demographic changes have left…
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NewsPoet Joshua Bennett Offers Electric Spoken Word Experience At Kent State University
Poet Joshua Bennett adjusted the mic stand at Kent State University. “I was raised Baptist,” he warned the audience in…
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NewsWhoopi Goldberg’s Directorial Debut Honors Moms Mabley
When Whoopi Goldberg made plans to revive her one-woman Broadway show on Moms Mabley, she ran into a problem: few…