Ohio Humanities

READ THIS: Jess Boeke, co-founder of the Rust Belt Fibershed, has a beautiful new essay inspired by the ecology in Toni Morrison's work published in Cleveland Review of Books as part of Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison.

"...we are all, in the ever-present moment, always at the beginning of our own potential, at the beginning of our collective story of this place, and hopeful that what we’re building outlasts us."

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Join our monthly Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison virtual book club this Sunday, where we'll discuss Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved with poet, novelist, and essayist Honorée Fanonne Jeffers!

Stop by West Side Market this Saturday from 10am-2pm and snag free copies of 'The Bluest Eye,' 'Sula,' and 'Beloved' thanks to Vintage Books and Penguin Random House!

Free books! Literary Cleveland giving away 500 Toni Morrison books at the West Side Market Literary Cleveland will distribute 500 free books by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison at the West Side Market this weekend as part of the statewide "Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison" initiative.

Don't miss Converging Arts Columbus' "The Journey: Breaking Barriers" tomorrow at 7pm! Use code OHIOHUMANITIES for $10 off tickets at capa.com/productions/the-journey-breaking-barriers.

Converging Arts to stage stories of school segregation in Ohio A new production, "The Journey: Breaking Barriers," highlights lesser-known stories of segregation in Ohio's past.

Reading Toni Morrison Today - Cleveland Review of Books 95 years ago, on February 18, 1931, Chloe Wofford was born on the shores of Lake Erie in Lorain, Ohio.

Join Converging Arts Columbus on April 11 for The Journey: Breaking Barriers, a new multidisciplinary stage production about the ongoing fight for educational equality in the United States, featuring the story of the Lincoln School Marchers of Hillsboro, Ohio! Use code OHIOHUMANITIES for $10 off tickets at capa.com/productions/the-journey-breaking-barriers.

New stage production revisits the history of segregation in Ohio A new multidisciplinary stage production chronicles the history of racial segregation and public school desegregation in two Ohio towns.

In the wake of Lincoln’s murder, the Confederates successfully derailed efforts to connect them to the assassination plot. 160 years later, the fate of the various Copperhead conspirators after the Civil War has much to teach us about the challenges we face today.

Listen to Episode 6 of The Copperhead Conspiracy at ohiohumanities.org/copperheadconspiracy or wherever you get your podcasts!