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VIDEO: Ayana Mathis and Oprah Winfrey Discuss Suffering In “Twelve Tribes”
Have your debut novel selected as Oprah’s second selection in her book club and you must expect for your life…
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What Were Your Thoughts On President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address?
On Monday, President Obama delivered his second Inaugural Address in the cold Washington air, laying out a progressive agenda for…
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“I Have A Dream”: Collections of Martin Luther King Links From Around The Web
Taylor Branch and Isabel Wilkerson were special guests of the Diane Rehm Show on NPR to discuss Dr. Martin Luther…
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VIDEO: What’s It Like To Be The Inaugural Poet?
On the eve of President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, Yale University hosted a live chat with Elizabeth Alexander, whose “Praise…
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Jonathan Kozol To Speak On Reducing Poverty With Dr. Cornel West And Tavis Smiley
1996 winner Jonathan Kozol will be speaking with Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West at the January 17th event, Vision…
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Isabel WIlkerson Describes Jim Crow Laws In The 1950s
In an Art Works podcast hosted by the National Endowment of the Arts, Isabel Wilkerson describes what life was like…
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We Can’t Get Enough Of Zora Neale Hurston
As we wrote before, Isabel Wilkerson has been educating her fans on the impact of the Great Migration by posting…
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What’s The Next Pick In Oprah’s Book Club?
We highlighted the reboot of Oprah’s book club (dubbed Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 as a nod to the newly added…
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Former Plain Dealer Book Editor, Karen Long, Joins Anisfield-Wolf Staff
We are thrilled to announce that Karen Long, until recently the book editor at the Plain Dealer, will be coming…
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VIDEO: Edwidge Danticat On Why Americans Don’t Know Haiti Beyond The Catastrophes
When we see Haiti in the news, it is often downtrodden and negative. Edwidge Danticant, our 2005 winner for fiction,…
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Five Books You Should Read First In 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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Reflections On A New Year: Ralph Ellison Style
“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it…