In 2024 one of the major issues facing Cleveland is youth violence. According to the prosecutor’s office, 41 youths faced murder charges in 2023, and that number is up from 2022. Forty-one lives are too many to lose to senseless preventable violence. In 2015 Glenville-based Sankofa Fine Art Plus initiated Urban Renaissance with heART, a community engagement public art program. […]
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Who is Sankofa Fine Art Plus? Sankofa Fine Art Plus serves and advocates for African American artists, which presents African American art as a credible and meaningful art form for neighborhood revitalization. Through intergenerational community education, and collaboration, via participatory public art, we inspire change in people, place, and practice. In doing this we create opportunity for a more just […]
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The city of Cleveland and the metropolitan areas it anchors have a long history of racial exclusion and segregation. To this day, Cleveland remains racially segregated, with most of the Black population clustered in the eastern side. Compared to the rest of the country’s 100 largest metro areas, Cleveland ranks 98th in racial inclusion, with massive gaps in earnings, poverty, and employment.1 […]
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