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Slideshow: Protest Art
By Sarah Riegel This slideshow is a sample of art drawn on buildings in Columbus’ Short North district. To read Eye on Ohio’s previous articles on police stops: Investigation: Blacks, black neighborhoods most likely to be traffic stop targets in Ohio’s 3 biggest cities Sidebar: Beleaguered Cincinnati agency probing stop complaints rarely faults cops Sidebar:…
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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years
Several Ohio campuses have abysmal success rates for black college students, even as the state pushes for, and desperately needs, more graduates This story about Kent State Ashtabula was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter. By Delece Smith-Barrow and…
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Ohio hospitals remain mum on changes to local bed and ventilator counts; uncertainty affects local patients
By Bonnie Jean Feldkamp and Kathiann Kowalski The Ohio Department of Health gets daily updates on the total number of beds and ventilators that could be available for COVID-19 patients at hospitals throughout the state. But so far the agency hasn’t provided any hospital-by-hospital breakdown, and the agencies that collect capacity information on their behalf…
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Eye on Ohio Launches Project to Combat Misinformation and Disinformation on the Internet
Shana Black, Eye on Ohio’s First Draft Fellow. On Thursday, a Cleveland man tweeted a picture saying that that local residents had taken to the streets to end COVID-19. The internet launched a vitriolic response, condemning the city for further spreading the disease. But no one, in fact, had marched. The tweet came from a…
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Tracing water, memory and change through Black experiences along and near Route 65
By Njaimeh Njie I live right above the Ohio River, off of a thoroughfare called the Ohio River Boulevard. It is one section of Route 65 – a 51-mile stretch of highway that travels from downtown Pittsburgh, northwest to the city of New Castle. The route spans three counties, three major rivers and several neighborhoods,…
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Investigation: Blacks, black neighborhoods most likely to be traffic stop targets in Ohio’s 3 biggest cities
Investigation: Blacks, black neighborhoods most likely to be traffic stop targets in Ohio’s 3 biggest cities By Max Londberg and Lucia Walinchus Video by Michael Nyerges Reporters from the nonprofit newsroom Eye on Ohio, The Cincinnati Enquirer and researchers from Stanford University’s Big Local News program examined police stops to assess how the three largest…
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Sidebar: Beleaguered Cincinnati agency probing stop complaints rarely faults cops
Reporters from the nonprofit newsroom Eye on Ohio, The Cincinnati Enquirer and researchers from Stanford University’s Big Local News program examined police stops to assess how the three largest communities in Ohio use public safety resources and to identify possible bias in policing. By Max Londberg Cincinnati, like all cities, has an imperfect policing record. …
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Down But Not Out in East Cleveland
Three years after its failed bid at a merger with Cleveland, the poorest city in the state of Ohio ventures a comeback By Jordan Heller EAST CLEVELAND — After dropping off a “wet one” (a man high on PCP) at University Hospitals Emergency Room, the ambulance pulled northeast onto Euclid Avenue near Cleveland’s border with…
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