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Wayne County Public Library s bookmobiles and seven locations are 100 books heavier and that much more informed about America s long and complicated racial history.
From little-known histories to more comprehensive accounts, the Wayne County Racial Justice Coalition, the county s public library system and Buckeye Book Fair partnered to donate some 100 black-themed books for adults and children in an effort to make American history more accessible.
For Susan Roberts, assistant director of the county s library system, the gift of books was enough to pique her interest. We re always interested in expanding our collection, and having a broad range of books available for everybody, Roberts said.
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Paul Orlousky s new book looks back on five decades as a journalist most of them in Cleveland TV.
Cleveland reporter Paul Orlousky retired earlier this year after five decades in news. Now, he’s back with a new book looking back at his career.
He says the title “Punched, Kicked, Spat On and Sometimes Thanked” comes from the hazards of reporting stories such as one in the 1980s when he found that police officers assigned to a hospital weren’t working the hours they claimed.
“I put the story on the air and 35 of them were suspended. Two of them got the bright idea to pay me back. So, they wrote some fake tickets on me, so there was a warrant out for me. It was a stressful thing, but it put me on the map in Cleveland [and] people thought of me, now, more as a Carl Monday or a Tom Meyer – some of the seasoned investigators in town.”
Desiree Weber, a city resident who attends the gatherings and a College of Wooster assistant professor, has been involved since the beginning. During the protest she held a faded green sign that said Black Lives Matter on one side and listed the names of individuals who died at the hands of police on the other. She made the sign on May 31 to take to a vigil for Floyd.
On Thursday, the protests reached day 200, Weber said.
The listing of names is now out-of-date, she said. More lives have been lost since the start of the protests, including that of Casey Goodson Jr. earlier this month.