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NewsREVIEW: “The Underground Railroad” By Colson Whitehead
by Charles Ellenbogen With all of the recent discussion about the changing faces on U.S. currency, some controversy emerged over…
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NewsPublic Art Inspired By Anisfield-Wolf Canon Makes A Splash Across Cleveland
Riders heading to downtown Cleveland on the RTA’s Red Line may have noticed quite a few more pops of color adorning…
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NewsAn Overlooked Classic, “Nervous Conditions” Is A Book That Deserves A Second Life In The Mainstream
by Gail Arnoff “I was not sorry when my brother died.” So begins Tsi Tsi Dangarembga’s semi-autobiographical novel Nervous Conditions,…
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News“I’m Not Racist” Documentary Features Millennial Views On Privilege, Power And Identity
In one compelling segment from the 2014 documentary, “I’m Not Racist…Am I?” high school students huddle around a board game…
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BookThe Gay Revolution
Faderman crystalizes this trajectory in the words of activist Frank Kameny: ‘We started with nothing, and look what we have wrought!’
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NewsWhen Children Feel Invisible: Joesiah Poulson at the 80th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
by Ali McClain The beginning movements of this essay began with a complex question: Which author’s reading from the 80th…
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NewsAuthor Daniel Mendelsohn On Writing And Discovering The Holocaust Anew
Cultural critic Daniel Mendelsohn paused in Cleveland this October before his written remarks to take in the stunning, restored Temple-Tifereth…
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NewsREVIEW: “A Ballerina’s Tale: The Incredible Rise Of Misty Copeland”
“A Ballerina’s Tale” is a delightfully intimate portrait of Misty Copeland—full of close-ups, uncomfortable silence, and peeks behind the curtain…
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NewsIncoming CWRU Students Get A Lesson In “Stereotype Threat”
Claude Steele, 69, has spent his professional life thinking about stereotypes. He knows how easily we drop into a defensive…
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NewsActivist and Author Bryan Stevenson Offers Four-Point Prescription For Tackling Injustice
Bryan Stevenson needs no notes. Not for his TED Talk, not for his Daily Show appearance, and not for his…
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NewsTransgender Activists Push For Equality At City Club Forum
An introspective, respectful and sold-out City Club audience gathered to consider the long march to equality for transgender people in…
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NewsCleveland Teens Add Their Voices To Conversation On Racism, Injustice
Shakyra Diaz, policy manager for the ACLU of Ohio, asked everyone in a crowded meeting hall who knew someone with…
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NewsREVIEW: Charles M. Blow’s “Fire Up In My Bones” Opens New Conversation On Masculinity
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow opens his memoir, “Fire Up In My Bones,” with a face full of…
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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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NewsWhat Has The Obama Administration Done For Women of Color?
Not enough, says a group of concerned women and girls, who have signed a letter to the president, calling for…
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NewsREVIEW: “On Such A Full Sea” By Chang-Rae Lee
Fourteen years after he won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his haunting second novel, “A Gesture Life,” Chang-Rae Lee delivers…
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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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NewsInspiration On The Page: Norman A. Sugarman Award Honors Outstanding Children’s Literature
A standard picture book contains 36 unnumbered pages. “Monsieur Marceau” follows the pattern, but manages a wondrous, supple depiction of…
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NewsSimon Schama’s “The Story Of The Jews” Premieres On PBS
Historian Simon Schama is careful not to call his new PBS series the “definitive” look at Jewish history, but by…
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NewsBlack Male Achievement Takes Center Stage In New Documentary, “American Promise”
When 13-year-old Idris Brewster, subject of the thought-provoking documentary “American Promise,” is invited to a classmate’s bat mitzvah, he says…