For the more than 600,000 friends and neighbors returning home from incarceration each year in the U.S., a fresh start is hard…
If you’re reading this right now, you know how to read. “Of course I know how to read!” you might be thinking…
Where others may not see opportunity when they visit Bob Deskins Park, Myrline Barnes, a long-time community activist in the Union-Miles neighborhood,…
Nathan Walden had already been feeding folks without homes in Akron for a couple of years when he realized a way to…
When Constantine Madias was attending The Ohio State University, he felt a divide between students with disabilities and the rest of the…
Cleveland has always been a city of makers. From the refugee farmers who founded the city, on through names like Case, Brush,…
(5:30 a.m.) Ding. Pam: “Are we doing this?” Ding. Anne: “I am in.” I can hear the light, frozen rain hitting the…
Cameron Cupar first learned about human trafficking from a European exchange student whose family had multiple survivors. “What surprised me the most…
As we wake up to a new year, many of us are reflecting on what did (and didn’t) work in 2018 and…
Inside the family emergency shelter, I see a woman with six children vying for her attention, trying to explain something to another…