By Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing,…
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20 years after the publication of ‘Purple Hibiscus,’ a generation of African writers have followed in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s footsteps
By Simon Lewis, College of Charleston Twenty years ago, in October 2003, 26-year-old Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto…
A community can gentrify without losing its identity – examples from Pittsburgh, Boston and Newark of what works
By Anthony Alvarez, Rutgers University – Newark How can neighborhoods gentrify without erasing their heart and voice? It’s an important question…
