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The Toni Morrison Lectures are held annually and spotlight the new and exciting work of scholars and writers who have risen to positions of prominence both in academe and in the broader world of letters. The lectures will be published in book form by Princeton University Press and celebrate the ...

Aswini Anburajan, a reporter and an editor for Feet in Two Worlds, a project of the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School, discusses the campaign and the Latino vote with Pilar Marrero, a reporter and columnist for the La Opinión, a Spanish-language ...

Farnaz Fassihi, deputy bureau chief for the Middle East and Africa for the Wall Street Journal, and the author of Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq, talks about the disruptions to daily life for ordinary Iraqis.

Philanthropist Edgar Bronfman is calling for a reinvigorated American Judaism; he says a more celebratory and hopeful religious life will draw and retain young Jews. He’s the author of Hope, Not Fear.

Events:
Edgar Bronfman will be speaking with Charlie Rose
At the 92nd St. Y
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Sherry Linkon, professor of English and American studies at Youngstown State University in Ohio, where she is also co-director of the university's Center for Working-Class Studies, says negative perceptions about the working class usually go unchallenged.

The troubling economic times here are making some immigrants think about going home. Nineteen years after the collapse of communism and four years after joining the European Union, Poland is booming and young Poles in the United States want to profit from these changes.

They're following the example of Irish immigrants ...

Breena Clarke’s new novel, Stand the Storm, revolves around the Coats family, a black family living in Georgetown around the time of the Civil War, and their struggles to free themselves from the legacy of slavery.

Event:
Breena Clarke will be reading from Stand the Storm

Bill Adair, editor of politifact.com, fact checks some recent speeches, and Stephen Dinan, reporter and blogger for the Washington Times, talks about the latest political news.

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Massie Ritsch, communications director for the Center for Responsive Politics, opens up the convention swag ...

Utah Senator Orrin Hatch gives his take on the news surrounding this weeks GOP convention.

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Texas Congresswoman Kay Granger(R-TX 12th District) talks about her time so far at the convention.

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Delegates Joshua Sullivan and Shari Sullivan from Granberry, Texas give their impressions on the ground ...

The 41st annual West Indian American Day Parade is making its way down Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn this afternoon. Thousands of people are in the parade, wearing lavish costumes and riding colorful floats. One of them is Dwaine Wilson, a Harlem resident and a native of Barbados:

WILSON: I just love ...

Susan Faludi, author of The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America, talks about why she thinks Barack Obama versus John McCain has the makings of an epic American gender showdown.

Read Susan Faludi's New York Times op-ed piece, Second-Place Citizens.

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So far, no one from New Jersey is scheduled to address Democrats in Denver. But as WNYC's Bob Hennelly reports, Garden State delegates are making a push to get Sen. Robert Menendez to the podium.

Menendez boosters are making the case to DNC planners and the Obama campaign that when ...

Antoine Faisal, publisher of the newspaper Aramica and a reporter with with Feet in Two Worlds, a project of the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School, gives Arab-American perspectives on the presidential campaign and conventions.

In his new film, “The Blacklist: Volume One,” director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders explores the zeitgeist of black America, and redefines traditional notions of a "blacklist." Former Planned Parenthood president Faye Wattleton is one of the prominent black Americans featured in the film. It begins airing on HBO on Aug. 25 at ...

We're heading for a mixed-race future and Carmen Van Kerckhove, Co-Founder of New Demographic and founder and publisher of Racialicious.com, and Jen Chau, Founder and Executive Director of Swirl, explain the implications and how Barack Obama's candidacy has changed the discussion about mixed-race identity.

The Olympics have been China’s big coming out party, and in New York City’s Chinatown, Chinese people of all ethnic groups watch with pride and optimism. WNYC's Richard Yeh has the story.

Slideshow: Olympic pride in NYC's Chinatown

HU JINTAO: Beijing’s 29th Olympic Games start now!

REPORTER: The Games open ...