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Grant Segall

Grant Segall is a national-prizewinning  reporter who spent 34 years with The Plain Dealer. Besides The Land, his freelance outlets have included The Washington Post, Time, Science, Reuters, The Boston Globe, Pittsburgh Magazine, NEXTpittsburgh, Philadelphia Magazine, American Education, Black Issues in Higher Education, Crain’s Cleveland, FreshWater Cleveland, The (Shaker Square) Connection, Shaker Life and West Life. He has also published fiction in 13 outlets and written the biography “John D. Rockefeller: Anointed With Oil” (Oxford University Press). He has been named Ohio’s best freelancer.

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Groundbreaking Cleveland Civil Rights Trail adds more sites, celebrates civil rights movement here

This month, the Cleveland Restoration Society will announce an eighth site for the Cleveland Civil Rights Trail, the first civil rights trail located in the northern United States.

Crooked Branch Farm gets federal honor, helps feed Mount Pleasant

A small Kinsman Road urban farm is expanding thanks to its designation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as one of the nation's flagship "People's Gardens." The designation came with a $25,900 grant.

Responding to gap in care, The Centers offers two urgent cares for mental health needs

With demand rising for help with depression, anger, suicidal urges, and many other behavioral problems, The Centers fills a gap in services with two urgent cares focused on mental health.

As Election Day approaches, voter registration and turnout efforts ramp up

As the November 2022 elections approach, volunteers from many organizations are expanding registration efforts around the area, trying to bulk up Cleveland’s already strong registration rolls and bolster weak turnouts. They’re helping people fill out registration cards and absentee ballot applications at schools, festivals, outdoor shows, jails, homeless campsites, and elsewhere.

MidTown’s tree champion goes citywide

Samira Malone has become the first director and employee of the Cleveland Tree Coalition, which hopes to reforest the Forest City.

Seedlings of hope: Locals try to replenish the Forest City’s trees

After decades of decline, many government agencies and nonprofits are trying to replenish the Forest City’s trees, especially in the barest neighborhoods, and especially this month, when the 150th anniversary of Arbor Day falls on Friday.

From Christian evangelist to urban advocate, Joyce Pan Huang leads Cleveland Planning Department

Huang, the planning department’s first female director and first Asian-American director, hopes not so much to develop the city as to help residents develop it. “Residents should have the opportunity to determine the future of their neighborhoods.”

New leader of Enterprise in Ohio fights for safe, affordable homes

Ayonna Blue Donald spent about four years as Cleveland’s Building and Housing Director. Now, she’s fighting to secure equitable and affordable housing in Ohio with national nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners.

Mayor Justin Bibb’s top hires so far have a wide range of backgrounds

The leaders like to say they’re “E and E,” which means “emerging and experienced.” They vary not just in age and other demographics but in their careers, which span governments, businesses, universities, and philanthropies.

Outspoken interim councilwoman fights for the “cracked community” of Ward 4

Marion Anita Gardner is a retired machinist, a survivor of 15 brain surgeries, a community center founder and leader, and a fill-in for a convicted councilman. Grinning and glaring, praising and panning, she always speaks her mind.

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