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Friday, March 21, 2025, 11:30 a.m.
Perhaps no widespread social initiative has been targeted by the presidential administration and others in political power as aggressively as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs. Among the Executive Orders signed by President Trump on day 1 was an order "Ending...
Thursday, December 12, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
Trauma surgeon and professor Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all: gunshot wounds, stabbings, and traumatic brain injuries. Dr. Williams is also an Air Force Academy graduate, a Harvard-trained physician, a former congressional health policy advisor, and a nationally...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
Healthy Beginnings: Supporting Maternal and Infant Vitality
According to the Ohio Department of Health, the infant mortality rate not only serves as a key indicator of maternal and infant health but is also an important measure of the health status of a whole community. And this year at...
Thursday, October 17, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon's Fight for Health Justice
Dr. Ala Stanford knew she wanted to be a doctor by the time she was eight years old. But role models were few and far between in her working-class North Philly neighborhood. Her teachers were dismissive, and the realities of...
Friday, July 12, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
The Power of Cycling: A Journey of Healing and Community
UPDATE: This forum has reached capacity for online registration! Walk-ins are welcome, but based on availability. If you previously reserved a spot, but are no longer able to attend, please email Stacy Holmes at sholmes@cityclub.org so others may have the...
Friday, June 21, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
Author Jeff Fuhrer knows the narratives used to shape the economy, and he believes those narratives need to change. Fuhrer is an economist, and has been active in economic research for more than three decades--including the Federal Reserve Bank of...
Friday, May 10, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
JUST ACTION: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law
When author Richard Rothstein joined the City Club in 2017 for his book The Color of Law, he argued with exacting precision how segregation in America—the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so...
Friday, March 22, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
You and Your Adult Child: How to Grow Together in Challenging Times
Straddling adolescence and adulthood is a uniquely challenging time. Not only do young adults face their own future life choices, but they are confronting the many stressors facing our world and trying to make sense of their place in it....
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