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Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Laureate for Literature

December 7, 2021 By Jenny Farrell

Wole Soyinka was the first Black African writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.

AFI Fest features the reel and the real Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin

November 23, 2021 By Ed Rampell

I love and highly recommend The Real Charlie Chaplin, which provides a penetrating portrait of one of the geniuses who coinvented and shaped the silver screen.

New book gives civil rights leader Alphaeus Hunton long overdue recognition

November 9, 2021 By C.J. Atkins

People's World interviews Tony Pecinovsky, author and editor of a new book on the largely unknown civil rights leader.

Major court victory against desecration of Bethesda’s Moses African Cemetery

October 26, 2021 By Jamal Rich

The cemetery is among the largest mass graves in the United States, but real estate developers have been eyeing the site for years.

Lessons from the time 250,000 workers shut down Canada’s largest city

October 25, 2021 By Dave McKee

October 25, 1996. As I made my way through Toronto’s east end, it was hard to not get excited by the streets whose eerie silence was notable. There were no buses, no delivery vans, no garbage...