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City champions

A special Guardian project reporting on inspiring people, groups and grassroots initiatives that are transforming lives for the better in cities across the US, starting with dispatches from Cleveland, Ohio

5 December 2019

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    'We’ve become like a family': innovative groups help refugees settle in US cities

    More than 2,500 refugees have settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in the last decade including many fleeing violence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

4 December 2019

  • Archie Green, a rapper and producer and mental health advocate, from Cleveland, Ohio.

    How to make cities better with hip-hop and poetry

    Rapper Archie Green uses hip-hop to tackle mental health problems while poet Damien Ware’s verse brings color and positivity to his segregated neighborhood

29 November 2019

  • Twelve Literary Arts One Mic Open After School Poetry Fellows, including Raja Belle-Freeman (on floor with book).

    'Natural genius is to be respected': inside Cleveland's space for teen poets

    Intergenerational incubator and creative writing program Twelve Literary Arts seeks to to inspire young people to participate in democracy

28 November 2019

  • Damien Forshe, a co-founder of Rid-All in the Kinsman neighborhood, pictured in one of the six greenhouses in 2012, died Nov. 29, 2018, after a heart attack.   The Plain Dealer, file photo

    Meet the activists bringing urban farms to one of America's most deprived cities

    One in three people in Cleveland and surrounds live in a food desert. But the desperation for healthy food has kicked off one of the biggest urban farming movements in the US

27 November 2019

  • Kim Foreman, executive director for Environmental Health Watch.

    'We can stop our children being poisoned': the fight for a lead-free Cleveland

  • Shatara Jordan, 18, poses in front of graffiti on an abandoned building in Cleveland, Ohio.

    'I go to sleep to gunshots, it doesn’t stop me': the art collective backing young black artists

26 November 2019

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    The billboards trying to make you think – not buy a product

    The Guardian and arts group For Freedoms have created images being displayed on billboards across Cleveland, Ohio, this month by local artists on the challenges they face to create a better community

  • 'Make them look twice and think twice': billboard campaign aims to inspire change with art – video

    Several billboards will be displayed around Cleveland this month, created by For Freedoms, a national art-as-activism platform supporting artists that spark civic engagement, in partnership with Guardian US and Guardian Cities. The billboards explore issues of redlining and structural racism, gender oppression, disparities in the arts, state-sanctioned violence and spirituality, says activist and artist Amanda D King

  • Iris Gisson, pastry chef at EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute in Shaker Heights ,OH

    Inside the restaurant serving up second chances for ex-prisoners

    Edwins restaurant trains former inmates in cooking and hospitality in an attempt to inspire confidence and break the cycle of re-offending

25 November 2019

  • Rachel, 34, holds son at home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

    America has an infant mortality crisis. Meet the black doulas trying to change that

  • Some of Cleveland’s City Champions – people and groups working to improve the lives of the city’s residents.

    'Inspirational and moving': The artists and activists changing the face of a US city

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