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Introducing our class of 2020

Introducing Our Class Of 2020

March 30, 2020

The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 85th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2020 recipients of the only...

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  • The Race Card Project Digs For The Truth About Race In America

    February 5, 2014

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

  • Michelle Alexander On The Perils Of Mass Incarceration In The U.S.

    January 31, 2014

    In her influential best-seller, “The New Jim Crow,” law professor Michelle Alexander dissects the devastating racial consequences of “locking up…

  • Vintage Black Glamour Blog Shows Flashier Side Of African-American History

    January 30, 2014

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

  • Wil Haygood Tells CWRU The Story Behind “The Butler” During Martin Luther King Convocation

    January 28, 2014

    Washington Post reporter Wil Haygood stood in the pulpit at the Amasa Stone Chapel on the Case Western Reserve University…

  • Connecting King And Soyinka: Some Things Were Meant To Be Looked At Differently

    January 22, 2014

    Kerrick Woyshner, 18, was a scholar in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf class, pioneered by Dr. Lisa Nielson at Case Western…

  • Rare Recording Of Martin Luther King Jr’s Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Speech

    January 20, 2014

    Late last year, the New York State Museum in Albany received an ordinary package – reel-to-reel tapes donated by the…

  • Reflections On Far From The Tree: Quiet, Beautiful and Different Children

    January 17, 2014

    Arjun Gopinath, 17, participated in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf class, pioneered by Dr. Lisa Nielson at Case Western Reserve University. …

  • Shutting Down The School-to-Prison Pipeline

    January 16, 2014

    When Robert Runcie became the new superintendent for Broward County schools, a populous part of metropolitan Miami, Fla., he knew…

  • What Race Means To Me: Being Chinese In A White America

    January 9, 2014

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

  • “CommUniversity” – Bringing African-American Studies To The Masses

    Affordable classes on African-American topics for anyone who wants to take them — that’s the gist of Professor Zachery Williams’…

  • This Artist Spent An Entire Year Capturing The Beauty and Essence Of Powerful Women

    January 3, 2014

    Unlike most of us, illustrator Lisa Congdon kept her 2013 resolution, for the entire year. We—and the internet—are better for it. …

  • Remembering Two Literary Heavyweights The World Lost In 2013

    January 2, 2014

    Almost 18 years ago in The New Yorker, Anisfield-Wolf Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. profiled the intellectual and novelist…

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