Friday, November 11, 2016
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114
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Friday, November 11, 2016
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114
When adoption processes and practices are ethical, parents and professionals are informed, and children are at the center, the extended family of adoption can be a model for a truly evolved definition of family. A lack of uniform laws, regulations and consistent standards, coupled with a lack of education, can leave everyone in the extended family of adoption unprepared and...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 12:00 p.m.
Join the City Club for the next installment in our Book Club series as we discuss Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America by Kyle Swenson. In the early 1970s, three African-American men―Wiley Bridgeman, Kwame...
Friday, March 22, 2019, 12:00 p.m.
More Green, Less White: Diversity in the Environmental Movement
June 22, 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire of 1969. This fire was by no means the first fire on the river (at least 13 others were reported prior to that) or even the biggest (the...
Thursday, March 21, 2019, 12:00 p.m.
ACEs and Toxic Stress: Rewriting the Story for the Next Generation
Over the last several years, healthcare providers and researchers are exploring the link between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and physical health, mental health, and addiction. The first study, published in 1998, found that children who experience ACEs (everything from divorce,...
Friday, March 15, 2019, 12:00 p.m.
The 2020 presidential campaign is underway. With a little over a year to the "Super Tuesday" primary, nearly a dozen Democrats have announced their candidacy, including five women, the most in history. In addition, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz expressed interest...
Thursday, March 14, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Higher, Further, Faster: Women Leading Superhero Films (and the World)
First appearing in a comic in 1968 as a supporting character, then in her own solo series in 1977 as Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel was finally introduced to the world in a comic in 2012. Born Carol Danvers, she was an officer in...
Thursday, March 14, 2019, 12:00 p.m.
Breaking Barriers: Women's Immigration Rights
This year, immigration has been at the forefront of policy and news all over the globe. Although these decisions have life-altering impacts on millions of people, women bear disproportionate risks as refugees, immigrants, or displaced people. While traveling for safety...
Monday, March 11, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
International Women's Day, celebrated annually on March 8, is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women - while also making a call for action to accelerate gender balance. The 2018 World Economic Forum Global Gender...
Monday, March 11, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
The Fifth Amendment creates a number of rights relevant to both criminal and civil leading proceedings. Arguably the two most recognizable are the self-incrimination clause ("pleading the Fifth") and the double jeopardy clause (prohibits trying someone twice for the same...
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