If Mullan Trail Elementary School fifth grader Tori Best could have a dream come true, it would be for the world to be rid of drugs and the harm they cause to users and their loved ones.
"If you are a friend, you can help get your friend into a program or treatment. This can make the world a better place," she said. "Drugs are a thief."
In the summer of 1919, white mobs claimed Black lives across the U.S. Karamu's "Red Summer" explores similarities to current issues and the response to racial violence.
The Akron Civic Theatre and National Center for Choreography-Akron have announced their teams each recently received $15,000 from the Ohio Arts Council Arts Resiliency Initiative. All $30,000 will go directly to support Akron artists: choreographer Dominic Moore-Dunson and the creative team and performers of The Civic's Millennial Theatre Project's production of Say It Loud.