Friday, September 22, 2017
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114
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Friday, September 22, 2017
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown was shot by police officer Darren Wilson in the northern St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. Within the next year, Eric Garner in New York, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, and Freddie Gray in Baltimore were all killed by police officers, each setting off protests surrounding police use of force in their respective cities.
These incidents caused...
Friday, February 28, 2025, 11:30 a.m.
Amplifying the Voices of Black Women, A Project Noir Update
What does accountability in healthcare, workplaces, and educational systems look like for Black Women? This is the question that Enlightened Solutions, a nonprofit social enterprise and social advocacy think tank asked in their 2024 follow-up report to Project Noir. The...
Friday, February 21, 2025, 11:30 a.m.
Man of Steel: A Conversation with Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves
Cleveland-Cliffs is not just a local household name in Northeast Ohio manufacturing and economic development. It is North America's largest flat-rolled steel producer and the largest supplier of automotive-grade steel in the nation. Since 2014, Lourenco Goncalves has been Chairman,...
Friday, February 14, 2025, 11:30 a.m.
The fateful year 2020 brought dramatic challenges to American cities. The COVID-19 pandemic and the civil unrest caused by the killing of George Floyd led to a cascade of negative media stories about cities, often politically motivated. It seemed possible...
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Your City Club is partnering up with Cleveland Play House on Thursday, February 13th during the run of the Pulitzer Prize winning Hamlet adaptation “Fat Ham” by James Ijames. After the performance's conclusion, Michael Barakiva, Artistic Director at Cleveland Play House;...
Science, Technology & Innovation
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 11:30 a.m.
Phones in Schools: Balancing Learning, Safety, and Freedom
Tickets to this RESCHEDULED forum are currently SOLD OUT. We hope that you will still join the LIVE STREAM to tune into the conversation. This student-led forum, the first of the Spring semester, offers an opportunity to engage in meaningful dialogue...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 11:30 a.m.
Unpacking Recent Executive Orders on Immigration and Refugee Resettlement
Northeast Ohio businesses, organizations, and communities are already feeling the impacts of the Trump administration's executive orders on immigration. On January 20th, the Trump Administration halted refugee resettlement--stranding some refugees within hours of their scheduled travel to the US. And...
Friday, February 07, 2025, 11:30 a.m.
10 Years of Cleveland's Consent Decree
Since 2014, the City of Cleveland has been under a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice to address a finding that the division exhibited an unconstitutional pattern or practice of excessive force. The investigation that led to that...
Wednesday, February 05, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes On the Reimagining of American Theatre
Through February, the stage production of Fat Ham will premiere at the Cleveland Play House. It's a cleverly hilarious retelling of William Shakespeare's Hamlet through the eyes of "Juicy," a Southern Black mama’s boy during a backyard cookout. It unapologetically...
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