🎨 Cleveland has always played an important role in Black history. The city’s East Side neighborhoods bustled with Black businesses and developments in the early 1900s. The city elected the nation’s first Black mayor of a major city in 1967, and Martin Luther King Jr. visited Cleveland more than a dozen times. In 2020, the racial reckoning surrounding the #BlackLivesMatter movement carried the torch of those trailblazers. 🎨 When businesses began boarding up their windows in the wake of police brutality protests, Downtown Cleveland Alliance, now Downtown Cleveland Inc., tapped local artists to fill these blank canvases. The movement became #VoicesofCLE Public Art Project, a joint effort across the city in the peak of the pandemic to spark conversation and participation around the growing movement for equality. These pieces humanized the faces, places and experiences of families and neighbors of color, creating community in a time of isolation. 🎨 The following year Karamu House, Down...