Northeast Ohio Community Resilience Centre

06/08/2026

https://stateline.org/2026/06/02/black-midwives-are-suing-southern-states-claiming-regulations-make-it-harder-to-help-patients/?emci=4cbfb106-1861-f111-8fcb-000d3a14b640&emdi=ced6f4dd-6363-f111-8fcb-000d3a14b640&ceid=594834

Black midwives in the South, a region rife with racial disparities in maternal health access and maternal mortality, are leading lawsuits over state regulations that they say limit their ability to provide care.

06/08/2026

https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/2026/groundswell-a-hopeful-documentary-on-climate-interview-with-josh-and-rebecca-tickell/

Groundswell took you across five continents. What drove the choice of those territories? Josh Tickell: We wanted to show places where radical regeneration was taking place, a real shift, not all…

06/08/2026

https://nextcity.org/podcast/reimagining-shuttered-schools-as-community-anchors

Podcast: Communities are reckoning with what it means to lose a neighborhood anchor and how to replace it with something that still belongs to the people.

06/01/2026

What used to be the “wrong side of the tracks” is now the city’s climate escape route, and Black residents are being pushed off the path they built.

05/29/2026

The GOP’s Big, Beautiful Bill sought to roll back the Affordable Care Act. Now, the human costs are becoming clear.

05/28/2026

A new book examines “renewable portfolio standard” laws and the ways utilities drove the bus.

05/26/2026

Riley on the inspiration behind 'I Love Boosters,' his colorful, mad-cap ode to the organization of global labor.

05/26/2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/us/texas-corpus-christi-water-crisis.html

Rising demand, municipal dysfunction and drought have pushed Corpus Christi to the edge of a water emergency, offering a cautionary tale for the rest of the country.

05/26/2026

Nine counties. One conversation. Last stop: Lake County.

Thursday, May 28 | 6–8 PM
Family Resource Center of Wickliffe
2255 Rockefeller Rd, Wickliffe, OH

Come tell us what your neighborhood looks like. Come hear what others are already doing. Help us figure out what comes next.

$20 gas stipend for all in-person attendees.

Know someone in Mentor, Willoughby, Eastlake, Painesville, Wickliffe, Willowick, Kirtland, Madison, or Perry? Send this to them. Every person in that room is another voice for this community.

05/26/2026

Yvonka M Hall

As NEOCRC commemorates and honors all of our fallen veterans, did you know that the first Memorial Day was established and celebrated by newly freed African Americans on May 1, 1865, in Charleston, South Carolina. According to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, they exhumed Union soldiers from a mass grave at a Confederate prison camp, gave them proper individual burials, and held a large parade and memorial service to honor those who secured their emancipation.