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VI: Imagining 2061

What do we want our region's headline to be? Will we leave the potential gains from closing racial disparities on the table?

V: Wealth Creation

Entrepreneurship is a crucial wealth building strategy, but how accessible is it to most people? 81/61 explores the stories of how several Black female entrepreneurs got their starts.

IV: Race or Labor Relations?

According to Dick Pogue, the Roundtable’s efforts to improve relations between labor and management was its greatest success. Using archival cassette tape of Frank Valenta of the United Steelworkers, we ask: how was this related to the Roundtable’s goal of inclusion?

III: American Dream to American Nightmare

The early 1980s marked the beginning of a new trend: wage and wealth stagnation for the bottom 50 percent of workers. Learn about why Carole Hoover urges us to have serious conversations about opportunity.

II: Race Relations in 1981

Was the Roundtable an effort to fight the root causes of inequity, or just an attempt to keep racial unrest in Cleveland out of the headlines? We uncover a seminal study of Cleveland’s racial disparities and how Roundtable members like Mayor George Voinovich reacted.