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Project 400, CLE Book Week, Anisfield-Wolf Winner Poet Sonia Sanchez

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Cleveland State University's Project 400 Conference this week kicks off a year-long city-wide commemoration of the 400 years since the first African slaves arrived in America. On The Sound of Ideas, we'll learn more Project 400. Later, a preview of Cleveland Book Week, which culminates with the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, and a conversation with the groundbreaking poet who'll receive the lifetime achievement award.

 

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Project 400 Conference

Cleveland Book Week

-Dr. Ronnie Dunn, PhD, Interim Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer & Associate Professor of Urban Studies, Cleveland State University  

- Dr. Thomas Bynum, PhD, Director of Black Studies & Associate Professor of History, Cleveland State University

-Karen Long, Manager, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

-Sonia Sanchez, Poet & Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

Rachel is the supervising producer for Ideastream Public Media’s morning public affairs show, the “Sound of Ideas.”