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Show moreMayor Gary Norton entered East Cleveland's city hall at the peak of the world financial crisis two years ago. Today, he has a lot to reflect about. Jobs and infrastructure are the cities biggest challenges. Rhonda Williams, Case Western Reserve University professor of history and Director of the Social Justice Institute (SJI), joins the conversation to add a social context to the crises and to talk about the role of SJI in East Cleveland.
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Show moreStructural inequalities are alleviated only through long-term solutions. The Case Western Reserve University’s Social Justice Institute (SJI) is bringing together leaders from across the country to discuss inequalities in Ohio and the US. Topics include criminal justice, immigration, and the foreclosure crisis. In this program of Regionally Speaking, we offer a preview to this conference in November. Joining your host Gladys Haddad is Rhonda Williams , Director of CWRU’s Social Justice Institute and Shakyra Diaz, Education Director for the American Civil Liberties Union in Ohio. Listen as we discuss Ohio’s criminal justice system and the value of having this conserversation in an intergeneraational context since SJI has invited Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, and Bakari Kitwana, a hip-hop cultural critic, to speak at the lecture series. How do we address deep structural inequalities with more than a superficial band-aid?
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Show moreThe novelist James Baldwin wrote, "If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go." This is the motivation for the oral interview effort in the City of East Cleveland called the "Voicing and Action Project." For a city facing tough economic challenges, engagement through stories of the city's own residents is a step forward for empowering a united community. This week Gladys Haddad, host of Regionally Speaking, talks to those involved in the project and listens to how the collection of local residents' stories not only documents the city's past, but also sheds a light on where residents want the city to be.
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