Justin Glanville

Although gun violence has been rising in all kinds of communities — white, Black, suburban, rural — Little Giants tries to reach Black and urban kids in particular, because of the problems stemming from the systemic racism that has long affected Black people and Black city neighborhoods.

Sam Stokes had barely written a word of poetry until one night in his prison cell, as much out of frustration as inspiration, he picked up a notebook and a pencil.

Growing up, Wesley Dirmeyer read more than a lot of his friends, but he started living and breathing books once he went to prison.

For Da'Jon Carouthers, the biggest contrast between free life and incarcerated life is the noise.

Before Jonathan Young began writing poetry through the ID13 Prison Literacy Project, he spent a long time trying to "fit in" with others around him.

Housing and neighborhood advocates in Northeast Ohio and beyond reacted with optimism Wednesday to news that Cleveland Congresswoman Marcia Fudge would be President-elect Joe Biden's pick to lead the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).