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For Janet Mock, Storytelling Serves As Activism For The Transgender Community
April 9, 2014
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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A Look Back At The Rwandan Genocide: 20 Years Later, What Have We Learned?
April 8, 2014
This spring, as Rwanda commemorates the 1994 genocide that extinguished more than a million of its citizens, a nation assesses…
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Wins Peabody Award For “Many Rivers To Cross” Documentary
April 3, 2014
Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.— who served as executive producer, host, and writer for “The African-Americans: Many Rivers to Cross”…
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New Poetry Collection From Kevin Powers Places War’s Aftermath In Verse
April 2, 2014
“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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Library Journal Features 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Winners
April 1, 2014
As our profile begins to grow as a book award, from time to time we like to recognize some of…
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Meet Our 2014 Winners
March 26, 2014
The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of its 79th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2014 recipients of the only…
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Simon Schama’s “The Story Of The Jews” Premieres On PBS
March 24, 2014
Historian Simon Schama is careful not to call his new PBS series the “definitive” look at Jewish history, but by…
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Zadie Smith And Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Talk Race, Romance Novels And Beyonce At The Schomburg Center
March 20, 2014
Novelists Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – both Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners — displayed a warm, comfortable familiarity on…
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Jesmyn Ward Stresses Importance Of Telling Stories That Matter During Recent Visit To Cleveland
March 19, 2014
On a freezing, overcast March day, the writer Jesmyn Ward made her first foray to Cleveland. She barely smiled as…
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“Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth” Premieres At Cleveland International Film Festival
March 18, 2014
For the first time, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards will sponsor a movie at the Cleveland International Film Festival: the documentary,…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wins National Book Critics Award For “Americanah”
March 14, 2014
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Americanah” took the top prize for fiction at the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards . Karen Long,…
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Writing Across Race Can Be Treacherous
March 12, 2014
Occasionally, a white writer will turn to Mat Johnson, the novelist who created the much-praised “Pym” and “Hunting in Harlem,”…
