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Rey Esparza interview, 19 June 2025
No full textThis oral history interview with Rey Arturo Esparza-Álvarez, conducted on June 19, 2025, documents his life journey from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, to Cleveland, Ohio, and his leadership role as President of Comité Mexicano de Cleveland. Esparza discusses his birth in 1975 in a low-income community, his educational experiences moving between Mexican and U.S. school systems, and his path from electrical engineering studies to a career in computer science software engineering. He details his 2011 relocation to Cleveland to work for Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems and describes the founding and growth of Comité Mexicano de Cleveland, which began in 2016 as a community group and became a 501(c)3 nonprofit in 2020. The interview covers the organization\u27s cultural programming including Mexican Independence Day celebrations and Día del Niño events, its collaboration with the Mexican Consulate in Detroit, and efforts to preserve the history of Club Azteca. Esparza reflects on the characteristics of the Mexican and Mexican-American communities in Northeast Ohio, challenges in building connections across regional communities in Lorain and Painesville, and the impact of contemporary immigration policies on Mexican communities. He also discusses his entrepreneurial ventures including Revy Fair Trade and his work promoting fair trade artisan products from Mexico and other countries
Rethinking Ohio Mandated Reporting for Child Neglect
No full textThis article briefly outlines the history and harm of family separation, reviews applicable federal and Ohio laws concerning child neglect and screening guidelines for investigation, and examines the social justice implications of rethinking mandated reporting requirements and implementing alternatives to protect children from systemic oppression and violence from the family policing system
Huey Haynes II interview, 21 January 2025
No full textIn this 2025 interview, Huey Haynes II, the owner of Haynes Firestone Tires on Miles Avenue, discusses his early life in the Glenville neighborhood in the 1960s. He describes the Haynes family history of owning gas and auto service stations across Cleveland and how he became the owner of Haynes Firestone Tires. He also describes the impact of his family on his life, why he became a business owner, and the changes that he has witnessed in Cleveland throughout his lifetime
Jimmie Waugh interview, 15 January 2025
No full textJimmie Waugh discusses moving from Mississippi to the Mount Pleasant neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio around 1959. He talks about attending Alexander Hamilton Middle School and John Adams High School before joining United States Military in 1965. He then tracks his professional pathway after leaving the military: he worked for the Warrensville Fire Department and then began doing maintenance work for the Thea Bowman Center when it still a part of Epiphany Catholic Church. He talks about the evolution of his work at the Thea Bowman Center, the network of churches in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, and the community surrounding the Thea Bowman Center
Unfollowing Censorship: A Policy-Oriented Analysis of Government Pressure on Social Media Content Management
No full textThe introduction of social media has facilitated communications and connectivity globally. However, in recent years, social media companies have started to adopt content moderation practices that are directly influenced by government pressure to comply with their requests to arrange information. Typically, these newly adopted practices often aim to censor or diminish the exposure of certain views, comments, and/or posts that the U.S. government, through its actors, dislike or find threatening to national security. This paper examines how informal government outreach to indirectly monitor, and control social media companies’ content moderation practices undermine the platforms’ constitutionally protected editorial autonomy. Consequently, this government intervention on social media companies’ content moderation policies further infringes upon the platform user’s free speech right to post in adherence to the platform’s guidelines free from government control. To address this problem, this paper adopts a policy-oriented approach where the problem is narrowly identified, claims and claimants are distinguished, past trends in legal decisions are explored, future trends of decisions are made to predict future outcomes, and solutions are drafted from an objective observer perspective. The past trends reveal direct government influence, at both the state and federal level, over social media platforms’ content moderation policies as explored in various Supreme Court cases. This analysis also considers conditioning factors such as the influential power of social media and its immunity from liability regarding user generated content on their respective platforms. After a thorough analysis of the past, this paper looks to the future. In predicting a possible outcome, social media companies will inevitably align their policies to government directives to secure their own interests and retain their immunity. In avoiding the forecasted path based on the analysis of past legal decisions, this paper proposes a legislative framework alternative meant to guide legislation that addresses government transparency in communications made to social media companies, as well as encouraging algorithmic transparency regarding content moderation practices to educate social media users and, overall, to prevent censorship
The Terms and Spirit : Preserving the Purpose of the Fair Labor Standards Act by Applying the Clear and Convincing Evidence Standard in FLSA Exemption Cases
No full textIn 2023, the Fourth Circuit in Carrera v. E.M.D. Sales split from its sister courts by requiring employers to prove by clear and convincing evidence that an employee is exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The Supreme Court reversed the Fourth Circuit’s decision, resolving the split by holding that the preponderance of the evidence is the correct standard. This Note argues that the Fourth Circuit, despite failing to provide a justification for its heightened standard, was correct because it preserves the terms and spirit of the FLSA. Congress enacted the FLSA as a remedial statute aimed to alleviate the power imbalance inherent in the employer-employee relationship. Courts accordingly interpreted the FLSA liberally under the narrow construction canon to ensure that as many employees as possible are protected under the Act. Imposing the clear and convincing evidence standard would serve to continue courts\u27 practice of construing the FLSA in favor of the employee. Especially in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Encino Motorcars v. Navarro where it rejected the narrow construction canon, the clear and convincing evidence standard would help to preserve the FLSA’s express purpose. The Supreme Court, however, continues in its deregulatory trend by ruling that preponderance of the evidence is the correct standard
