Several Black playwrights have canceled productions of their works, in some cases after performances started, because of concerns about conditions at the theaters presenting them.
Freedom Festival! The new abolition/underground railroad museum in University Circle (the Cozad Bates House) hosts Freedom Festival!, a special opening today from 1 to 3 p.m. Restore Cleveland Hope and the Extended Family will display their Underground Railroad Quilts and tell the stories of the symbolism they carry. You can meet historic figures Sara Lucy Bagby and Cyrus Ford outside in the newly designed grounds surrounding the historic Cozad Bates house, the only antebellum structure left in University Circle.