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Toni Morrison Speaks To Cadets At West Point After “Home” Finds Place In Their English Curriculum
March 25, 2013
Toni Morrison doesn’t hold her tongue on anything she deems important for the masses to know. At 82, she has…
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Celebrated Nigerian Author Chinua Achebe Dies At 82
March 22, 2013
During my freshman year at Kent State University, I was a little wary when I saw one of the books…
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Kwame Anthony Appiah Speaks On National Honor At Severance Hall Lecture
March 20, 2013
American philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah is not allowed into China. He mentioned this fact at the end of his well-attended…
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Joyce Carol Oates’ Latest Novel, “The Accursed,” Has Fans Buzzing
March 18, 2013
Cover photo courtesy HarperCollins Publishers Chances are, Joyce Carol Oates’ latest work is unlike anything you’ve ever read before….
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Civil Rights Icon Andrew Young Jr. On 50th Anniversary of “Letter From Birmingham Jail”
March 14, 2013
Boston—U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young turns 81 this week. He was barely into his 30s when he traveled with the Rev….
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“Warmth Of Other Suns” Named The 2013 Selection For Chicago’s City-Wide Book Club
March 13, 2013
With so much negative news spilling out of Chicago each day, we’re happy to see at least one bright spot…
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Harriet Tubman, American Hero
March 11, 2013
March 10th, 2013 was the 100th anniversary of the death of Harriet Tubman, a woman whose name is synonymous with…
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Anisfield-Wolf Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. Has Portrait Unveiled At National Portrait Gallery
March 8, 2013
We’ve long felt honored to have Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of the nation’s most preeminent African American scholars, as…
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REVIEW: Does Mohsin Hamid’s “How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia” Deliver?
March 5, 2013
Somewhere, a canny business professor may be plotting to put Mohsin Hamid’s astringent new novel into an MBA course. It…
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Edwidge Danticat Lends Her Pen To The Film, “Girl Rising”
March 4, 2013
It’s something that most of us in America take for granted—the right to an education. We don’t think about what…
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Toni Morrison Shares What Mistakes She Made With “The Bluest Eye”
March 1, 2013
We were thrilled to receive an invitation to participate in Toni Morrison’s first live digital book signing, courtesy of Google…
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Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas Brings Immigration Debate To Cleveland
February 26, 2013
The audience was sparse for immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas. As it scattered into the seats of the Ohio Theatre…
