Want to know what is on our minds? Find blog posts written here, by the City Club staff, members, and partners. Every week you can find a new edition of #FreeSpeech in the News — a collection of related stories, commentary, and opinions on free speech in the 21st century that’s making the news. You’ll also find takes on current events, past forums, and issues surrounding Northeast Ohio. Read on for all things City Club.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
The most exciting week of the year in the CLE is nearly upon us! The Cleveland International Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday, March 18th. The City Club is once again partnering with CIFF on FilmForums, a set of panel discussions that will take place immediately after 12 different screenings at the festival. Our first...
read onTuesday, March 03, 2015
Last month, The City Club joined the Cuyahoga Place Matters team to take a deeper look at the legacy of mid-twentieth century real estate development and lending practices. The event was ostensibly to hear the results of a report by Jason Reece and his colleagues at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and...
Monday, March 02, 2015
An introspective, respectful and sold-out City Club audience gathered to consider the long march to equality for transgender people in Northeast Ohio. Activist Stacey Parsons spoke directly to the elected officials in the room: “Without your support, nothing can change. Your being here says so much to the community.” Darius Stubbs, a Cleveland teaching artist,...
Saturday, February 21, 2015
When I started writing a recent piece for Politico on Cleveland's race problem, I was thinking a lot about the conversations we have and the conversations we don't have. As a community, we've had city council listening sessions, actions by Greater Cleveland Congregations, meetings at churches and ward clubs. In the midst of these many...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
In a popular U.S. high school history textbook, The Americans, there is only one sentence—in passive voice—on housing discrimination among more than 1200 pages of text: “African-Americans found themselves forced into segregated neighborhoods.” So noted researcher Richard Rothstein, who cited this fact as an exemplar of American “collective amnesia” when it comes to how we discuss...
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Moderator Anthony Price of Shaw High School; Shakyra Diaz of the ACLU of Ohio; Jonathan Gordon of CWRU School of Law; Basheer Jones, writer and poet; Andres Gonzalez, chief of police of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority Shakyra Diaz, policy manager for the ACLU of Ohio, asked everyone in a...
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