Who counts as a citizen, and what does it take to become counted? Claudia Rankine addresses this question in her 2014 book,…
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It was probably typically male of me to think I could simply avoid it. As a male reader, I wasn’t sure what…
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I have long rejected the imagery of the school-to-prison pipeline. Pipelines have an end. The steps that lead to and reinforce mass…
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I never thought about orange. When I learned the orange tip was removed from the toy gun that Tamir Rice was playing…
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She keeps a gratitude journal. It was almost time to head to a Cleveland women’s shelter for the twice-monthly book club I…
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Diversity MattersSocial Justice‘In Their Path’ author seeks to celebrate Cleveland’s antislavery history
I’d heard about Joan Southgate’s walk long before I finally found her book, In Their Path: A Grandmother’s 519-mile Underground Railroad Walk…
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I first came across Reginald Dwayne Betts when I read his poem, “When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving.” Along with…
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My Neighbor, MyselfThe United States of Cleveland‘Believing in Cleveland’ explores realistic view of urban development
Cities are neither coming back nor declining. Instead, they’re doing both at the same time. Author J. Mark Souther, a professor at…
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Living WellMy Neighbor, MyselfOne Community Reads: ‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City’
Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, should be for poverty what Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle…
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With the recent sentencing of former officer Michael Slager for the murder of Walter Scott fresh in the news, it is easy…