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Bernita Polk Thomas Interview, 06 March 2025
No full textIn this 2025 interview, Bernita Polk Thomas talks about her family’s move from Central to Mt. Pleasant and her life growing up in the neighborhood. She mentions racial changes, her experiences in the public schools, and extracurricular activities she participated in. Thomas Polk ends her interview by emphasizing the importance of understanding the past through history
Kevin Harp interview, 16 July 2025
No full textIn this 2025 interview, Kevin “mr. soul” Harp discusses his early life in Lee-Harvard, his early education, and his early interest in comic books and graffiti as a form of artistic expression. He describes the rise of hip hop in Cleveland, his involvement in the graffiti art scene, and other artists and collaborators that he worked alongside. Harp discusses his life after leaving Cleveland: attending art school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, spending time in Chicago, and eventually moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1996, where, through his artwork, he became associated with Organized Noize, the Dungeon Family, and Patchwerk Studios. Finally, he describes his return to Cleveland in 2016 and his work as a mural artist
For the Greater Good: Civil Commitment for Addiction Amid the Overdose Epidemic
No full textAmerica is facing a reckoning born of its own duality. Our society is gradually embracing an increasingly permissive stance on recreational drug use, while at the same time we lament the human costs of addiction. What the media has dubbed the “opioid epidemic” has seen increases in drug addiction diagnoses and opioid-involved overdose deaths nearly every year since 1999. In a rush to designate guilty parties and to crown a “gold standard” for treatment options, we have focused on theoretically flawed approaches that fail to follow the science precisely. At the same time, we dismiss validated treatment modalities in their entirety based upon historical misapplications of those methods.
This multidisciplinary note advocates for the strategic use of what we will call New Paradigm Civil Commitment, or “NPCC,” wherein severely addicted persons would be compelled into longitudinal outpatient addiction treatment services until they can regain sufficient capacity to care for themselves. Such programs would be federally funded through grants awarded to local public health departments for implementation of the strategy. This review will seek to redefine the epidemic, illustrate how the proper designation necessitates a change in strategy, explore what those new preferred strategies should be, and then advocate for the implementation of said strategies both nationally and locally
Connect with Faculty Series featuring Stephen Gingerich and Día de Los Muertos
No full text11:30 am-Sugar Skull Decorating
12:30 pm-Presentation of “Dia de Muertos in Guatemala and Beyond” by Dr. Stephen Gingerich, CSU Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures
1:30 pm-Café Hispano: Converse in Spanish and enjoy snacks .Sponsored by Club de Españo
Cleveland Financial Empowerment Neighborhoods of Strategic Focus: Data Profile
No full textThis report primarily focuses on the data that supports the need for financial empowerment policies, programming, and planning in the City of Cleveland, with a specific focus on the target neighborhoods identified. Demographic and economic data alike show that residents in target neighborhoods face substantial challenges when it comes to economic stability and mobility. This is true citywide for minority populations, especially, and the target neighborhoods of this project face notable challenges beyond that.
The neighborhoods targeted for this project include Downtown, Central-Hough, Glenville-Collinwood, Buckeye-Woodhill, Broadway-Slavic Village, Clark Fulton, and Old Brooklyn. Together, these neighborhoods contain over 256,000 residents, which makes up 72% of the total population of the City of Cleveland
Examining Male Sexual Violence and Victimization using Previously Untested Sexual Assault Kits (via the SAK Initiative): Part 1, Male Victims
No full textDespite substantial rates of male sexual victimization, male victims are less likely to seek help postvictimization compared to female victims, which has resulted in a lack of large-scale quantitative studies in this area. This study, as the first in a two-part series, aims to investigate the victimology patterns of male sexual assault victims, focusing on key elements of routine activity theory: victim characteristics (suitable targets) and the circumstances of assaults (lack of capable guardianship)
Marion Anita Gardner Interview, 01 July 2025
No full textIn this 2025 interview, Marion Anita Gardner discusses her early life in Cleveland, memories at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, and her eventual move to the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. Gardner describes her work as the founder and CEO the Concerned Citizens Community Council on Kinsman Road, her work as a machinist at TRW, and her early education. At the end of the interview, Gardner expresses her love for Cleveland and leaves a message for future generations
Yolanda Steward-Barnes interview, 14 January 2025
No full textYolanda Steward talks about growing up on E. 142nd Street between Bartlett Avenue and Glendale Avenue in the 1950s. She describes visiting stores on Kinsman Road and E. 131st Street such as a chicken market, a shoe store, and a movie theater. Steward describes her experiences at Moses Cleveland Elementary School, Alexander Hamilton Middle School, and John Adams High School. She discusses some experiences of segregation and discrimination: both within public spaces and within the public school system. She then describes changes in her family, working at the steel mill, and changes in the Union-Miles neighborhood. At the end of the interview, she emphasizes how much she loved growing up on E. 142nd Street and gives advice to young people
Claude Carson interview, 27 January 2025
No full textIn this 2025 interview, Claude Carson, the owner of Sports One Bar and Grill in the Lee-Harvard neighborhood, discusses his experiences as business owner in the area. He details his early life, his involvement in the Black studies program at Kent State University, and his pathway to opening a business. He then details the changes of Sports One Bar and Grill over time and why he continues to stay invested in the neighborhood