Friday, October 09, 2020
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Friday, October 09, 2020
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Over the last few months, our nation's educators have been forced to be in a constant state of revaluation of educational practices to ensure that all children can continue to thrive during online learning and distance-learning. As the foundations of our educational systems have been tested by COVID-19, inequity in education has become much more visible and even exacerbated in...
Tuesday, April 04, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
Embracing Civil, Human, and Women's Rights under a New Administration
During Barack Obama’s presidency, the Department of Justice was aggressive in pursuing the broadest interpretation of civil rights law, with government lawyers addressing cases involving transgender students, juvenile prisoners, gay rights, policing, and criminal justice, among others. President Donald J. Trump’s...
Monday, April 03, 2017, 5:30 p.m.
War has been raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and women are caught in the crosshairs. Since the 1990s, militias have been fighting over the region’s rich, lucrative natural resources. Of their war tactics, rape runs rampant and is...
Sunday, April 02, 2017, 2:40 p.m.
The reputation surrounding GMO foods paints a picture of chemically enhanced produce, pumped with steroids and other poisons, being conned into our children’s mouths. But what if we have it all wrong? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson narrates this documentary, which...
Friday, March 31, 2017, 3:00 p.m.
FilmForum: A Revolution in Four Seasons
With the ousting of President Ben Ali in 2011, Tunisia lit the spark for the revolutionary Arab Spring that followed. Living abroad as a student at the time, director Jessie Deeter was inspired to document the movement. When she met...
Friday, March 31, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
How Philanthropy Created America, and Can Rescue Us Now
Philanthropy in America is a bursting, bubbling impulse that has vital effects on almost every sector of our society. Private action to solve public problems is one of the practices that most distinguishes the U.S. from other nations, and it...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Within the past year, Downtown Cleveland witnessed tremendous momentum made possible by successfully hosting the RNC, a Cleveland Indians World Series appearance, and a Cleveland Cavaliers NBA championship. What's next for Downtown's growth and development? In the 1920's, Cleveland prospered, in...
Friday, March 24, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
Drug Problem: Is There a Solution to Ohio's Opioid Crisis?
2016 was an unprecedented year for opioid overdoses nationwide. Since 1999, opioid overdoses and the amount of prescription opioids sold in the U.S. have quadrupled, creating an epidemic that spans all ages, communities, and demographics. Ohio can be considered the "ground...
Thursday, March 23, 2017, 6:00 p.m.
City Club @ Happy Dog: Covering Politics in the Trump Era
On both the right and the left, media has been under fire before and after the 2016 election. According to Gallup, Americans’ trust in media has dropped to 32 percent, its lowest level in Gallup polling history. That’s an 8...
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