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Sunday worship at Church in the Circle includes a variety of music, members represent multiple races and economic statuses and people attend the University Circle Church from inside and outside of the city. And the spirit of diversity is intentional. “Enable people to know, ‘hey, I could find something of myself there,” said Rev. Kenneth Chalker, pastor of the church. Chalker began working in Cleveland 30 years ago at First United Methodist Church at E. 30th Street and Euclid Avenue.

As she cradles three-year old Jackson in her lap, Robin Brown coaxes him to count. "Say one … two … come on Jackson," says Brown. But all she gets from her great nephew is a blank stare. "This look is the look that hurts, when you see a look on a child's face that they want to do something but can't. That hurts," said Brown.

Like many cities, Cleveland has a black part of town and a white part of town. These divisions didn’t happen by chance. Ideastream’s new series, Divided By Design, explores the policies that shaped and isolated our neighborhoods. But there’s another storyline, too, one of black upward mobility that Todd Michney highlights in his new book, Surrogate Suburbs Black Upward Mobility and Neig

Today at 11amMany of today's major American cities are sprawling metropolises that cater to the extremely wealthy while also housing the very poor. Author…

Many of today's major American cities are sprawling metropolises that cater to the extremely wealthy while also housing the very poor. Author Richard…

Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation," in which people of color were purposely excluded from suburbs.

Many of today's major American cities are sprawling metropolises that cater to the extremely wealthy while also housing the very poor. Author Richard…

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says school segregation will continue to exist in America "as long as individual parents continue to make choices that only benefit their own children."

A neighborhood just east of the Ohio State Fairgrounds has long been associated with outhouses and wood-burning stoves. But it's becoming increasingly…

The recent clash between police and black teens outside a pool party in McKinney, Texas reminds many of a long history of segregated swimming pools. The…