Courageous Books About Black Soldiers, Feuding Asian-American Brothers in Wisconsin, Horseracing’s Racial History, and the Pervasiveness of White Supremacy Have All Won the 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

Courageous Books About Black Soldiers, Feuding Asian-American Brothers in Wisconsin, Horseracing’s Racial History, and the Pervasiveness of White Supremacy Have All Won the 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Release Date: 4.3.2023 CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of its 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf...

Celebrate MLK Day with the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

As the nation’s only juried prize given to books that confront racism, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (AWBA) are closely linked to Martin Luther King Jr.’s efforts to advance racial justice and civil rights. For more than 87 years, the distinguished books earning Anisfield-Wolf prizes have opened and challenged minds, making important...

#AWBA2018: A History of Hoaxes, a Mississippi Ghost Story and the Interplay of Freedom and Captivity are among the winners of the 83rd Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

We’re excited to announce this year’s cohort of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners! Unveiled today by 2015 Anisfield-Wolf winner Marlon James onstage at Case Western Reserve’s ThinkForum, 2018 winners include:Shane McCrae, In the Language of My Captor, PoetryN. Scott Momaday, Lifetime AchievementJesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing...

Meet our 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners!

Yesterday we announced the winners of the 82nd Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and examines diversity. Anisfield-Wolf Jury Chair Dr. Henry Louis Gates delivered the big news at the 2017 F. Joseph Callahan Distinguished Lecture at Case Western Reserve University last...

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