Art Scene, Editorials, Local Stories, Social Issues
Photo Credit: RonDale Simpson by Jason Eugene Cleveland, Ohio—a city RonDale Simpson, founder and artistic director of Blakk Jakk Dance Collective, calls “the miracle by the bay.” It wasn’t on his “Bingo card” when he envisioned his life...
Editorials, Local Stories, Social Issues, Video Interview
by Jason Eugene It’s afternoon in the Heights on a late spring day. The afternoon sun, the kind that slants through the trees and paints the sidewalks in strokes of gold and shadow, casts a warm glow with a tinge of Cleveland grayness. Inside a modest,...
Local Stories, Podcast, Social Issues
BEHIND Cleveland Podcast - New Era Cleveland https://behindcleveland.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/BEHIND-Cleveland-Deep-Dive-Podcast-New-Era-Cleveland.mp3 In a weathered brick building on Cleveland’s East Side, in the Buckeye District, where boarded-up...
Black History, Editorials, Opinions, Social Issues
There are moments in life when the story we’ve been told about the world starts to fall apart. You’re sitting there, watching life unfold, but something doesn’t add up. The characters don’t fit their roles, the plot twists feel forced, and you start to wonder: Who...
Editorials, Feature, Podcast, Social Issues
Seated in our sunlit corner office, Dr. Adriennie Hatten waits for me. Her impressive credentials speak volumes: Bowdoin College Magna Cum Laude graduate, Director of Special Projects at the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Foundation, and Founder and Principal...
Cleveland Places, Entrepreneurship, Social Issues
“Systems create rules to protect systems, not to help people… ” In the heart of Northeast Ohio, where gray gloom and dusty rust-belt figures meet systemic issues, Cheryl Mays, MSW, LSW, sits across from me in her modest office. As founder of The Parent...
