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The Article On Race Every American Should Read
May 28, 2014
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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Inspiration On The Page: Norman A. Sugarman Award Honors Outstanding Children’s Literature
May 26, 2014
A standard picture book contains 36 unnumbered pages. “Monsieur Marceau” follows the pattern, but manages a wondrous, supple depiction of…
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VIDEO: Walter Mosley Explains His Writing Regimen, Career Struggles, And Why “There No Such Thing As White People”
May 13, 2014
Writer and radio host Michael Eric Dyson posed a simple question to Walter Mosley midway through their Schomburg Center for…
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Talks Education, Fundraising And Career Highlights At African-American Philanthropy Summit
May 12, 2014
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. spent a sunny April Saturday in Cleveland speaking frankly about money and race and aspiration….
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REVIEW: “The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death” By Colson Whitehead
May 6, 2014
Colson Whitehead will be 45 this year, and his latest book invites readers along on a midlife road trip, “The…
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As Search For Nigeria School Girls Continues, Wole Soyinka’s Urging To Fight For Education Remains Poignant
May 5, 2014
Last September, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka spoke passionately about the global “contest between barbarism and enlightenment” around educating children. His…
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Will British Period Piece “Belle” Resonate With Moviegoers?
May 2, 2014
When screenwriter Misan Sagay visited the storied Scone Palace in Scotland, an 18th century painting of a pair of aristocratic…
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New Poetry Anthology Moves Grown Men To Tears — And That Is Precisely The Point
May 1, 2014
Anthologies are tricky – and a new one called “Poems That Make Grown Men Cry” might seem like a gimmick….
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“Half Of A Yellow Sun” Nigerian Release Delayed By Censors
April 28, 2014
Two weeks after Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chiwetel Ejiofor walked the red carpet at the Lagos premiere of “Half Of…
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“The Best Book Describing the South” That Most Have Never Read
April 22, 2014
When Theodore Rosengarten won the National Book Award in 1975 for “All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw,” he…
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Do You Have Your Ticket To The African-American Philanthropy Summit? #GivingHasNoColor
April 18, 2014
Twenty years ago, Charlotte-based consultant Valaida Fullwood encountered philanthropy close to home. Her 70-year-old aunt, Dora Atlas, right around the…
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Even After Brandeis University Dispute, Advocate Ayaan Hirsi Ali Won’t Be Silenced
April 16, 2014
The feminist writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali lived out a new chapter of her controversial public life this month when Brandeis…
