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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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  • VIDEO: Ayana Mathis and Oprah Winfrey Discuss Suffering In “Twelve Tribes”

    January 28, 2013

    Have your debut novel selected as Oprah’s second selection in her book club and you must expect for your life…

  • Mohsin Hamid

    VIDEO: Sneak Peek Of The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    January 25, 2013

    We must have written about Mohsid Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist at least six times over the past year but only…

  • What Were Your Thoughts On President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address?

    January 23, 2013

    On Monday, President Obama delivered his second Inaugural Address in the cold Washington air, laying out a progressive agenda for…

  • “I Have A Dream”: Collections of Martin Luther King Links From Around The Web

    January 21, 2013

    Taylor Branch and Isabel Wilkerson were special guests of the Diane Rehm Show on NPR to discuss Dr. Martin Luther…

  • VIDEO: What’s It Like To Be The Inaugural Poet?

    January 18, 2013

    On the eve of President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, Yale University hosted a live chat with Elizabeth Alexander, whose “Praise…

  • Jonathon Kozol

    Jonathan Kozol To Speak On Reducing Poverty With Dr. Cornel West And Tavis Smiley

    January 16, 2013

    1996 winner Jonathan Kozol will be speaking with Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West at the January 17th event, Vision…

  • Isabel WIlkerson Describes Jim Crow Laws In The 1950s

    January 14, 2013

    In an Art Works podcast hosted by the National Endowment of the Arts, Isabel Wilkerson describes what life was like…

  • Zora Neale Hurston

    We Can’t Get Enough Of Zora Neale Hurston

    January 11, 2013

    As we wrote before, Isabel Wilkerson has been educating her fans on the impact of the Great Migration by posting…

  • What’s The Next Pick In Oprah’s Book Club?

    January 9, 2013

    We highlighted the reboot of Oprah’s book club (dubbed Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 as a nod to the newly added…

  • Former Plain Dealer Book Editor, Karen Long, Joins Anisfield-Wolf Staff

    January 7, 2013

    We are thrilled to announce that Karen Long, until recently the book editor at the Plain Dealer, will be coming…

  • VIDEO: Edwidge Danticat On Why Americans Don’t Know Haiti Beyond The Catastrophes

    January 4, 2013

    Watch Edwidge Danticat on the Struggle of Haitian Immigrants on PBS. See more from Need To Know. When we see…

  • Five Books You Should Read First In 2013

    January 2, 2013

    With a new year comes new reading lists. We at Anisfield-Wolf rounded up some of the new and not-so-new books…

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