We love Black History Month! Before it ends in just a few hours, we want to share with you a favorite quote from this month’s abundance of virtual events we managed to attend this month:
“We’re a young country; our history is not that hard to know.”
That nugget, from Heather McGhee — whose 2020 TED talk, “Racism Has a Cost for Everyone” reached 1 million views in just two months online — seemed directed largely at those who choose willful ignorance as a way to avoid responsibility for doing right things now.
When you visit our site tomorrow, you will find our report on the Cleveland Public Library’s marvelous program from yesterday that paired McGhee with New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb.
You will also read the latest on the imminent special election for the 11th Congressional District, which will launch just after the Senate’s expected confirmation of Marcia Fudge as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, including the first debate among the declared hopeful successors, now numbering seven.
We’ll also be sharing news about the city’s two oldest civil rights organizations.
This month we relaunched without fanfare version 2.0 of our website. We were delighted beyond measure at the reception accorded the new site.
These three articles received the most hits this month:
1. Summit County candidate will change dynamic of race to elect Fudge successor
2. William Fields joins Biden administration
3. Top City Hall manager heads to Regional Transit Authority
There are plenty of other stories still waiting to be discovered. Our goal is to serve as the paper of record for what happens of consequence relative to the black community in Northeast Ohio.
As you explore our site over the coming weeks and months, take some time to check out our archives, where you will find 61 PDFs of issues dating to when we either a print monthly [2014-2016] or subsequently an online weekly.
We are thrilled to now be a publication with new content at least six days a week. Much of it is either original reporting or not easy to find elsewhere. As a dear friend says, “if The Real Deal Press doesn’t report it, it didn’t happen.”
Richard T. Andrews
Editor & Publisher
THE REAL DEAL PRESS
a digital news site
reporting on the interplay of race, class and power in the civic, business and cultural spaces of Northeast Ohio and beyond.
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