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Retha Powers, the editor of the magnificent and addictive new “Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations,” has a handful of all-time favorite…

Philosophy Professor David Livingstone Smith kicked off the University of New England’s 2014 diversity lecture series with a talk on…

Anti-racism activist Tim Wise joked that he was on his third visit to the University of Akron campus in the…

When 13-year-old Idris Brewster, subject of the thought-provoking documentary “American Promise,” is invited to a classmate’s bat mitzvah, he says…

Looking out over the multiracial crowd of more than 600 assembled at the University of Akron’s E.J. Thomas Hall, journalist…

Ask Nichelle Gainer why she decided to create Vintage Black Glamour, and her answer is simple: She saw a need….

Andrea Lau, 18, was a student scholar this past fall in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf course, pioneered by Dr. Lisa…

African-American tech insiders will talk about their work stories in a new series on National Public Radio’s Tell Me More. From Dec….

The potency of literature went on vivid display in early November when readers gathered around the writers who won this…

At the conclusion of this year’s ceremony, a number of Nigerians in attendance approached our lifetime achievement winner Wole Soyinka,…

Tonight, our spotlight shined on 10-year-old Gwyneth Wilde, a fifth-grader at the Falcon Academy of Creative Arts in Mogadore. Gwyneth…

Three times a week, a group of strangers gathers in the basement of an independent New York City bookstore. Their…

The numbers are sobering: African American babies are twice as likely to die before their first birthday than white infants….

“In a time that spends so many words and dollars upon conflict, it is encouraging to be noticed for having…

One highlight of the annual Anisfield-Wolf awards ceremony is listening as a gifted local student reads aloud a poem of…

As the George Zimmerman trial draws to a close, the simmer of daily conversation on social media has heated to a…

The gorgeous new documentary, “Twenty Feet from Stardom,” delivers several jolts of insight, including this small one: Women who can…

When the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act last month, Chief Justice John Roberts…

When we first toured my daughter’s private school, I saw a little African-American girl toddling around. She was adorable with…

As an African-American woman, I’ve had strangers grab and rake their fingers through my hair (without my permission) on more…