
Cleveland Lost Josh Edmonds Once. Now the Country Calls Him a Visionary.
Two years ago he sat at my table, bruised from City Hall. This summer his industry handed him three national awards. The lesson is about us, not him.

Two years ago he sat at my table, bruised from City Hall. This summer his industry handed him three national awards. The lesson is about us, not him.

The Cleveland Observer laid out what the appointment is and what it isn’t. Here is what it means for the people who pay the tobacco bill.

The first public hearing packed the room. Here is what happened, what comes next, and how RealPower.TV is going to cover it.

Eleven white jurors were ready to sign. The one Black man in the room would not. Now reporters are pulling his records and a blogger has published his photograph.

News / Health and Power — REAL POWER.TV Nearly one in three people in Cuyahoga County is on Medicaid. Now do the math on a

Cleveland does not have an organizing problem. It has a coordination problem. Boots on the Ground returns for November, carried by RealPower.TV and the names on the flyer — and it starts Saturday with a breakfast.

They arrested a 19-year-old for the fire at Friendship Baptist. Nobody will answer for the seven years before him. My mother’s funeral was in that sanctuary. So was my grandfather’s.

Cleveland police called it ethnic intimidation. The contractor called it nothing. Ohio’s hate crime law has not been touched since 1987 and tops out at twelve months.

Community / Health — REAL POWER.TV There is a poison in the walls of the houses where Black children in this county grow up. Everybody

Politics / Public Safety — REAL POWER.TV The city watched 133 illegal vehicles take over the East Side from a helicopter, knew where they were

Two years ago he sat at my table, bruised from City Hall. This summer his industry handed him three national awards. The lesson is about us, not him.

The Cleveland Observer laid out what the appointment is and what it isn’t. Here is what it means for the people who pay the tobacco bill.

The first public hearing packed the room. Here is what happened, what comes next, and how RealPower.TV is going to cover it.

Eleven white jurors were ready to sign. The one Black man in the room would not. Now reporters are pulling his records and a blogger has published his photograph.

News / Health and Power — REAL POWER.TV Nearly one in three people in Cuyahoga County is on Medicaid. Now do the math on a

Cleveland does not have an organizing problem. It has a coordination problem. Boots on the Ground returns for November, carried by RealPower.TV and the names on the flyer — and it starts Saturday with a breakfast.

They arrested a 19-year-old for the fire at Friendship Baptist. Nobody will answer for the seven years before him. My mother’s funeral was in that sanctuary. So was my grandfather’s.

Cleveland police called it ethnic intimidation. The contractor called it nothing. Ohio’s hate crime law has not been touched since 1987 and tops out at twelve months.

Community / Health — REAL POWER.TV There is a poison in the walls of the houses where Black children in this county grow up. Everybody

Politics / Public Safety — REAL POWER.TV The city watched 133 illegal vehicles take over the East Side from a helicopter, knew where they were
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