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One of our most accomplished, “visible” authors has to be Junot Diaz, hands down. He is at ease on the…

American philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah is not allowed into China. He mentioned this fact at the end of his well-attended…

Boston—U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young turns 81 this week. He was barely into his 30s when he traveled with the Rev….

With so much negative news spilling out of Chicago each day, we’re happy to see at least one bright spot…

March 10th, 2013 was the 100th anniversary of the death of Harriet Tubman, a woman whose name is synonymous with…

Somewhere, a canny business professor may be plotting to put Mohsin Hamid’s astringent new novel into an MBA course. It…

It’s something that most of us in America take for granted—the right to an education.  We don’t think about what…

We were thrilled to receive an invitation to participate in Toni Morrison’s first live digital book signing, courtesy of Google…

The audience was sparse for immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas. As it scattered into the seats of the Ohio Theatre…

In what we hope will become an ongoing series, we’ll be sitting down with Anisfield-Wolf winners to hear their thoughts…

For the first time in history, two inaugural poets shared the same stage and spoke about what the experience meant…

Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel, Beloved, took home the Anisfield-Wolf award for fiction in 1988. In it, a slave, unwilling to…

In honor of Ms. Morrison’s 82nd birthday, we’re looking back at our archives for some of our favorite moments from…

As the U.S. economy continues to crawl toward recovery, more and more people find themselves at the library. Filled with…

After a rich discussion between philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah and museum director Johnnetta Cole, the final question in Oberlin’s Finney…

We’re always delighted to read a new piece from 2006 winner Zadie Smith’s mind, as she is one of our…

Jim Sheeler has no use for celebrity. He is drawn to “regular people, whose names have never been in the…

Let’s start this post off with a story. Imagine if you will, that you are older and your health is…

Have your debut novel selected as Oprah’s second selection in her book club and you must expect for your life…

On Monday, President Obama delivered his second Inaugural Address in the cold Washington air, laying out a progressive agenda for…