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Black Male Achievement Takes Center Stage In New Documentary, “American Promise”
When 13-year-old Idris Brewster, subject of the thought-provoking documentary “American Promise,” is invited to a classmate’s bat mitzvah, he says…
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The Race Card Project Digs For The Truth About Race In America
Looking out over the multiracial crowd of more than 600 assembled at the University of Akron’s E.J. Thomas Hall, journalist…
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Michelle Alexander On The Perils Of Mass Incarceration In The U.S.
In her influential best-seller, “The New Jim Crow,” law professor Michelle Alexander dissects the devastating racial consequences of “locking up…
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Vintage Black Glamour Blog Shows Flashier Side Of African-American History
Ask Nichelle Gainer why she decided to create Vintage Black Glamour, and her answer is simple: She saw a need….
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Wil Haygood Tells CWRU The Story Behind “The Butler” During Martin Luther King Convocation
Washington Post reporter Wil Haygood stood in the pulpit at the Amasa Stone Chapel on the Case Western Reserve University…
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Connecting King And Soyinka: Some Things Were Meant To Be Looked At Differently
Kerrick Woyshner, 18, was a scholar in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf class, pioneered by Dr. Lisa Nielson at Case Western…
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Rare Recording Of Martin Luther King Jr’s Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Speech
Late last year, the New York State Museum in Albany received an ordinary package – reel-to-reel tapes donated by the…
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Reflections On Far From The Tree: Quiet, Beautiful and Different Children
Arjun Gopinath, 17, participated in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf class, pioneered by Dr. Lisa Nielson at Case Western Reserve University. …
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Shutting Down The School-to-Prison Pipeline
When Robert Runcie became the new superintendent for Broward County schools, a populous part of metropolitan Miami, Fla., he knew…
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What Race Means To Me: Being Chinese In A White America
Andrea Lau, 18, was a student scholar this past fall in the first college-level Anisfield-Wolf course, pioneered by Dr. Lisa…
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“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’…
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This Artist Spent An Entire Year Capturing The Beauty and Essence Of Powerful Women
Unlike most of us, illustrator Lisa Congdon kept her 2013 resolution, for the entire year. We—and the internet—are better for it. …