The Next 400

These Unsung Heroes are ordinary youth doing the extraordinary in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior.

Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb credits one of Dr. King's books with motivating him to run for office.

19 News and Cleveland Public Library celebrate life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The woman changing MetroHealth: Incoming CEO on her mission to provide equal health care for all

“My story is like a lot of other Black kids and how their story and how they came up. It was all about surviving. I don’t want my son to feel like he has to survive."

“The world can see he was somebody and he stood for something.”

The Cleveland Clinic is collaborating with Morehouse School of Medicine, a historically Black college and university, to increase the number of underrepresented groups in the medical field.

Juneteenth is the newest federal holiday, but that doesn’t mean the Black community wants to see Juneteenth ice cream, T-shirts and streamers sold on every aisle.

Here in Cleveland, you don’t have to go to a museum to see and experience art.You can walk out your door, look up and see it on the walls of buildings all around the city.

Charles Jackson and the other exonerees who will likely live in this house one day will have a place to heal, to fulfill their passions, and continue finding justice for themselves.

“Being African American living in my community and the life choices, lifestyle I was living it was acceptable for me to see prison in my future,” Charles Jackson said. “When I was locked up in prison and then I saw a whole different side of what life is because I was in prison for something I didn’t do.”

”My message is clear: to provide a diverse opportunity for all students. Only 2% of teachers are Black males but it’s more than that. It’s women in S.T.E.M., it’s men in their primary years. I want to make sure that an African-American history class and a race, gender and oppression class become normalized and not different,” said Kurt Russell.

This comes after data discovered by City Lab showed that Cleveland was one of the worst places for Black women to live.

In honor of Black History Month, 19 News shines a light on Cleveland-area men and women who have made a difference in Northeast Ohio.

A Cleveland Cavaliers executive knows all too well the importance of HBCUs.

"It’s a program of support, of celebration,” said LaDosha Wright. “We want to address and talk about hair discrimination, hair bullying, hair shaming."

Black History Month kicks off with an encore presentation of 'The Next 400: Digging Into The Tangled Roots of Black Hair Culture'

The pantry is located at the Alphas’ educational center on 116th street and will be open every first Wednesday of the month.

On the walls of the Kent State University Museum, there’s a portrait called “Internal Battle.” The artist, Keturah Ariel, pondering the decision: natural hair or straightened?

Black Ohioans are more likely than their white counterparts to be arrested for marijuana-related crimes, even though people of both races use the drug at about the same rate, a 19 new analysis shows.

Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish is putting an end to housing discrimination, and local nonprofits are cheering him on.

The organization will have someone go out in the local African American and Hispanic communities to help get the right info out about the disease.

Selina Pagan and her team at the Young Latino Network were pushed to the brink last month as they participated in more than 30 events educating others on Latino culture.

Black women are 40 times more likely than white women to die of breast cancer.

Chief People and Inclusion Officers with the NBA said the social movements from the past few years mean teams can no longer remain isolated: “It’s forced us all to come to terms with what’s happening in the world around us.”

When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine, more than 55 percent of Americans are vaccinated but folks in the Black and brown communities still lag behind.

Why is Gabby Petito’s story trending while Rajah McQueen and Paige Coffey have fallen behind?

In the event you get pulled over by police, you press a button, and the app texts those people and sends them your exact location with a zoom link that gives them a live look at what’s happening.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, known as MOCA Cleveland, is doing something bold to build racial equity and bring artists of color and their creations into the spotlight.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland is doing something bold to better amplify the voices and works of artists of color.