• Trip to Montgomery commemorates Cleveland man murdered in 1911 over a handful of cherries

    by Randy Cunningham    (Plain Press December 2025) The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a project of the Equal Justice Institute in Montgomery, Alabama is a complex of sites dedicated to commemorating the black experience in America from slavery and segregation, up to today’s New Jim Crow of mass incarceration. I think it is…


  • Play about Tamir Rice  to come to Near West Theatre

       (Plain Press November 2025) The Tamir Rice Foundation in association with the Cleveland-based theatre company Powerful Long Ladder will present the play Objectively/Reasonable: A Community Response to the Shooting of Tamir Rice on November 8th at 6:45 p.m. at Near West Theatre, 6702 Detroit Avenue.    Directed by award-winning former Karamu House Artistic Director…


  • Tamir Rice Butterfly Memorial designated as Cleveland Landmark

       (Plain Press November 2025) At its October 20th meeting, Cleveland City Council approved designating the Tamir Rice Butterfly Memorial as a Cleveland Landmark (Ord. No. 1084-2025), sponsored by Councilmember Jenny Spencer.