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As a scholar and writer, his footprint is vast, and no one, since the great W.E.B. Du Bois, has done more to reframe the narrative of his field away from the ‘Lost Cause’ myth of white supremacy, toward interracial democracy, truth, and justice.

My parents speak two different Bantu languages, and even my sister and I speak different languages; so, we all speak to each other in English. We speak Nyanja, Namwanga, Mambwe and Bemba. I tend, when I think in Zambian words, to think in Bemba, not Nyanja.

With the William G. Mather steamship providing a nautical backdrop, poet Tracy K. Smith brought her work to the shores…

By Gabrielle Bychowski Sitting at my desk, I set down my copy of A Room of One’s Own, looked over…

In 1970, Harvey Milk, a boisterous, restless New Yorker, turned 40 without a sense of having accomplished much. But in…

Growing up in DeLisle, Mississippi, has influenced me in many ways. Growing up here taught me to appreciate beauty, the beauty of the bayous and of the forests and of the Gulf. Growing up in this community taught me to appreciate storytelling, taught me to appreciate language.

Thanks to Wesley Lowery and his colleagues at the Washington Post, citizens anywhere can click on the newspaper’s “Fatal Force”…

The Lavender Graduation is an annual celebration that occurs on numerous campuses across the country, where graduating lesbian, gay, bisexual,…

Coretta Scott King begins her posthumous new memoir with a terrific metaphor: “Most people know me as Mrs. King. The…

The Evening Road returns Laird Hunt to Indiana, where the Anisfield-Wolf winner lived on his grandmother’s farm during his high…

The editors of the New York Times Style magazine invited four woman to write letters of appreciation to Michelle Obama…

by Lisa Nielson, Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. I was taking an internet break from my pile of…

by Charles Ellenbogen With all of the recent discussion about the changing faces on U.S. currency, some controversy emerged over…

Riders heading to downtown Cleveland on the RTA’s Red Line may have noticed quite a few more pops of color adorning…

 by Gail Arnoff “I was not sorry when my brother died.” So begins Tsi Tsi Dangarembga’s semi-autobiographical novel Nervous Conditions,…

In one compelling segment from the 2014 documentary, “I’m Not Racist…Am I?” high school students huddle around a board game…

Faderman crystalizes this trajectory in the words of activist Frank Kameny: ‘We started with nothing, and look what we have wrought!’

by Ali McClain The beginning movements of this essay began with a complex question: Which author’s reading from the 80th…

Cultural critic Daniel Mendelsohn paused in Cleveland this October before his written remarks to take in the stunning, restored Temple-Tifereth…

“A Ballerina’s Tale” is a delightfully intimate portrait of Misty Copeland—full of close-ups, uncomfortable silence, and peeks behind the curtain…