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News2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Honors Year’s Best Literature On Peace And Social Justice
On a recent sunny Sunday morning, four celebrated American writers rose early to meet for breakfast and chew over the…
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NewsREVIEW: “Dear White People” Ushers In New Talent, Gives Unflinching Look At “Black Faces In White Spaces”
When I arrived as an undergraduate at Kent State University, I participated in Kupita, a week-long orientation for students of…
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NewsNew Report Details “The Making Of Ferguson”: How Governmental Policy Created A Racial Nightmare
When Atlantic Monthly correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates’ spoke in Cleveland in August about reparations, he touched only briefly on the killing…
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NewsRita Dove Brings Focus To Literacy In Akron, Delivers Stunning Poetry To Inspire A New Generation
When former poet laureate Rita Dove graced the stage of the Akron Civic Theater October 16, she took a minute…
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NewsNew Photography Exhibit Provides Never-Before Look At Black Student Life In The 1960s
Toledo attorney Lafayette Tolliver, 65, estimates there were fewer than 300 black students on the campus of Kent State University…
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NewsREVIEW: “Half Of A Yellow Sun” Adaptation Tackles A Violent History With A Emphasis On Humanity
Half of a Yellow Sun is now available on iTunes and other video streaming services. by Lisa Nielson The film…
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NewsVIDEO: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie On Becoming Black: “This Identity Was Weighted With Stereotypes”
“When you’re not born in the U.S. and you’re a person of African descent, in some ways identifying as black…
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NewsVIDEO: Q&A With George Lamming, 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
George Lamming, who spent decades as a leader of the Caribbean literary Diaspora, won our 2014 Lifetime Achievement award for…
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Take A #LiteracySelfie To Mark International Literacy Day — And Tag A Friend
How can a book lover mark September 8—International Literacy Day? Here’s a notion from the Literacy Cooperative of Cleveland, which…
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“What’s It Like To Work With A Bunch Of Black Kids?”
BY SARAH MARCUS This post originally appeared in Luna Luna magazine and is reprinted here with permission. All students named…
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NewsRuby Dee and Ossie Davis’ Grandson To Pay Tribute To Legendary Actors In New Documentary
Actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis met in 1946 in New York City when they were both cast in “Jeb,”…
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NewsHow To Teach College Students About Race And Identity: Let Them Lead The Way
By Lisa Nielson, Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow Lisa Nielson is the Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. She has…
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NewsThe Article On Race Every American Should Read
When writer Ta-Nehisi Coates visited Cleveland on a frigid February morning earlier this year, he was blunt when asked about America’s…
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NewsFor Janet Mock, Storytelling Serves As Activism For The Transgender Community
In early February, Facebook rolled out 56 new gender identities for user profiles. Selections such as “pangender” and “two-spirit” now…
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NewsA Look Back At The Rwandan Genocide: 20 Years Later, What Have We Learned?
This spring, as Rwanda commemorates the 1994 genocide that extinguished more than a million of its citizens, a nation assesses…
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NewsNew Poetry Collection From Kevin Powers Places War’s Aftermath In Verse
“Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting” publishes this week, the first collection of poetry from Anisfield-Wolf fiction winner…
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NewsZadie Smith And Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Talk Race, Romance Novels And Beyonce At The Schomburg Center
Novelists Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – both Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners — displayed a warm, comfortable familiarity on…
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NewsWriting Across Race Can Be Treacherous
Occasionally, a white writer will turn to Mat Johnson, the novelist who created the much-praised “Pym” and “Hunting in Harlem,”…
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NewsVIDEO: “I, Too, Am Harvard” Highlights Frustration Of Black Students In Predominately White Spaces
A play about the realities of black students at Harvard University debuts Friday at the Black Arts Festival on the…
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NewsWill “My Brother’s Keeper” Be Obama’s Lasting Legacy?
During January’s State of the Union address, President Obama included one sentence midway through his remarks that didn’t receive much…