Tuesday, February 19, 2019, 6:00 p.m., Private Room at Bar Louie
After Serial's Spotlight: What's Next for Cleveland?
Nick Castele and Rebecca Maurer
The third season of Serial, the popular investigative journalism podcast, focused on Cleveland's criminal justice system. It's nine compelling episodes surpassed 50 million downloads and was named the best podcast of 2018 by TIME despite its unconventionality. Featuring multiple story lines and offering no resolution, the series wove together both large and small cases to illustrate how daily injustices can amass into systemic problems. Journalists Sarah Koenig and Emmanuel Dzotsi were...
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Friday, February 15, 2019
Reflections on Mitchell J. Silver's Talk on Parks and Recreation at the City Club
by Nelson Beckford The Commissioner’s talk made me reflect on the City of Cleveland and the Cleveland Foundation’s legacy in terms of recreation, public spaces, and parks. Here are a few of those watershed moments: • Mayor Tom Johnson (1901-1909) removing the 'Keep off the Grass' signs in the city parks, sending a loud and clear about the role of parks from passive to active recreation • The Cleveland Foundation’s first discretionary grant (1919) was to keep open playgrounds that otherwise would have operated on limited summer hours because of lack of funds and we helped to create the Cleveland Metroparks •... read on
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