Friday, November 03, 2017
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Ballroom A & B | Huntington Convention Center
300 Lakeside Avenue East Cleveland, Ohio 44113
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Friday, November 03, 2017
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Ballroom A & B | Huntington Convention Center
300 Lakeside Avenue East Cleveland, Ohio 44113
2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the election of Carl Stokes, the first African-American mayor of a major U.S. city. Shortly after the election and in an effort to initiate sweeping changes to improve the lives of Clevelanders, Mayor Stokes created Cleveland NOW! as his signature proposal to address the challenges of his time. Many of the challenges that motivated...
Friday, February 24, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
Even after a couple of decades, Northeast Ohio's startup community might still be considered to be in its early stages. This is especially true when compared to other areas of the nation where the startup economy is so integrated it...
Thursday, February 23, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
The Value Gap in the Age of Trump
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Ph.D., William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies, and Chair of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, coined the term “value gap,” the “belief that white people matter more than...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 5:00 p.m.
Dinner + Dialogue: City on the Brink - The Future of East Cleveland
Once the summer home of John D. Rockefeller, East Cleveland was a thriving three-mile metropolis just outside Cleveland's borders at the turn of the 19th century. It didn't last. Since the 1960s, East Cleveland has been plagued by industrial decline,...
Friday, February 17, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
Uniting: The Power of Philanthropy
August A. "Augie" Napoli has been President and CEO of United Way of Greater Cleveland since June 2016. With 40 years of experience in nonprofit leadership, encompassing healthcare, faith-based community philanthropy and arts organizations, Napoli immediately began a comprehensive evaluation...
Thursday, February 16, 2017, 4:00 p.m.
Lessons from the Bernie Revolution
A 75-year old Senator from Vermont was hardly the candidate pundits expected to mobilize the 2016 electorate, but Senator Bernie Sanders was just that candidate. Running on a campaign that rallied to make college tuition debt-free, to create a living...
Friday, February 10, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
Understanding Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn
For a DVD of this forum, email dmoulthrop@cityclub.org or call 216-621-0082. Just 10 years ago, Turkey was negotiating membership into the European Union and being cited as an example for other Middle Eastern countries to embrace as a market-friendly and democratizing...
Thursday, February 09, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
Youth Forum: Fake News and Free Speech in the 21st Century
Our First Amendment guarantees that: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,...
Tuesday, February 07, 2017, 6:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes on the World: We the People
From the election of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States to Britain’s Brexit vote to leave the European Union to the ascendance of the nationalist Front National in France and other political movements across the globe, people...
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