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Incoming CWRU Students Get A Lesson In “Stereotype Threat”
Claude Steele, 69, has spent his professional life thinking about stereotypes. He knows how easily we drop into a defensive…
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Activist and Author Bryan Stevenson Offers Four-Point Prescription For Tackling Injustice
Bryan Stevenson needs no notes. Not for his TED Talk, not for his Daily Show appearance, and not for his…
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Transgender Activists Push For Equality At City Club Forum
An introspective, respectful and sold-out City Club audience gathered to consider the long march to equality for transgender people in…
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Cleveland Teens Add Their Voices To Conversation On Racism, Injustice
Shakyra Diaz, policy manager for the ACLU of Ohio, asked everyone in a crowded meeting hall who knew someone with…
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REVIEW: Charles M. Blow’s “Fire Up In My Bones” Opens New Conversation On Masculinity
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow opens his memoir, “Fire Up In My Bones,” with a face full of…
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“What’s It Like To Work With A Bunch Of Black Kids?”
BY SARAH MARCUS This post originally appeared in Luna Luna magazine and is reprinted here with permission. All students named…
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What Has The Obama Administration Done For Women of Color?
Not enough, says a group of concerned women and girls, who have signed a letter to the president, calling for…
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REVIEW: “On Such A Full Sea” By Chang-Rae Lee
Fourteen years after he won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his haunting second novel, “A Gesture Life,” Chang-Rae Lee delivers…
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The Article On Race Every American Should Read
When writer Ta-Nehisi Coates visited Cleveland on a frigid February morning earlier this year, he was blunt when asked about America’s…
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Inspiration On The Page: Norman A. Sugarman Award Honors Outstanding Children’s Literature
A standard picture book contains 36 unnumbered pages. “Monsieur Marceau” follows the pattern, but manages a wondrous, supple depiction of…
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Simon Schama’s “The Story Of The Jews” Premieres On PBS
Historian Simon Schama is careful not to call his new PBS series the “definitive” look at Jewish history, but by…
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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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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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REVIEW: Eugene Gloria, My Favorite Warlord
by Kathleen Cerveny My Favorite Warlord, by Eugene Gloria, is the recipient of the 2013 Anisfield Wolf Book Award for…
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“Staring In The Mirror”: Prejudice, Biases and Fighting Human Nature
by Sally Wiener Grotta A recent Anisfield-Wolf blog post asked, “What Biases Are You Carrying?” In the blog, Attorney Louise…
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Lorraine Hansberry Biopic In Development
Films on Princess Diana, Steve Jobs, and Jimi Hendrix should make 2013 a rich year for biopics. An intriguing new…
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VIDEO: Watch Andrew Solomon’s TEDMED Talk On Illness Versus Identity
Under the slogan “ideas worth spreading,” the annual TED conferences began in 1990, and have showcased a clutch of Anisfield-Wolf…
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Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas Brings Immigration Debate To Cleveland
The audience was sparse for immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas. As it scattered into the seats of the Ohio Theatre…
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What Could This Blog Be In 2013?
As our first full year of blogging here is coming to a close, we at Anisfield-Wolf wanted to take a…
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We Would Pay Top Dollar Just To Hear Toni Morrison Speak
Anytime – and we do mean anytime – there is a new Toni Morrison interview or book or appearance, we…