During a Galla Event that took place on October 13, 2023, at the Cleveland City Hall Rotonda, Dr. Maria J. Pujana, MD received the 2023 Angel Guzman Outstanding Achievement Award. This honor, presented as part of the City of Cleveland’s Hispanic Heritage Month, recognizes those who embody the spirit of active involvement, selfless service, and unwavering dedication to the betterment of a diverse community.

The recipient of this award was endorsed by the Mayor of the City of Cleveland, Ohio Justin M. Bibb, the Director of the City of Cleveland Community Relations Board Angela Shute-Woodson, the City of Cleveland Hispanic Liaison Christopher Martínez, and the City of Cleveland Hispanic Board of Trustees...

Some sociologists believe that the rising number of non-religious Americans is a reaction against right-wing evangelicals. But that’s just part of the story.

What if I were to tell you that the following trends in American religion were all connected: rising numbers of people who are religiously unaffiliated (“nones”) or identify as “spiritual but not religious”; a spike in positive attention to the “religious left”; the depoliticization of liberal religion; and the purification and radicalization of the religious right? As a sociologist who has studied American religion and...

The Cleveland Foundation is excited to join residents, nonprofit partners, and community leaders as part of a larger movement of equitable growth and place-keeping efforts already underway across Cleveland’s MidTown and Hough neighborhoods...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Andrew Santoli sentenced a Shaker Heights attorney to three years in prison for voting in Ohio and Florida in the same election year in the last two general elections, 2020 and 2022.

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Andrew Santoli called 56-year-old James Saunders’ actions “purposeful, intentional and cavalier” in handing down the maximum sentence. Santoli also fined Saunders $10,000...

Two organic compounds essential for living organisms have been found in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, buttressing the notion that some ingredients crucial for the advent of life arrived on Earth aboard rocks from space billions of years ago...

The Opportunity Project Tackles Challenges Specific to Puerto Rico, Including Supporting Children’s Mental Health and Renewable Energy

The Opportunity Project (TOP) wrapped up 2022 with a collection of new federal open data products produced by and for Puerto Rican communities...

Critical race theory is an academic framework that examines systemic racism in the U.S. legal system. Richard Delgado, the son of a Mexican immigrant, helped develop the framework five decades ago.

Why it matters...

The White House has aggressively worked to rebut false narratives emanating from Russia about the crisis in Ukraine by proactively releasing intelligence information, a highly unusual strategy that experts and former officials say has knocked Russian President Vladimir Putin off his ...

President Bolsonaro did not approve the strong wording condemning Russia for the military invasion of Ukraine.

Lack of consensus on the drafting of a Mercosur joint statement on the...

An internal population is the result of its genetic continuity since the Iron Age, characterized by isolation and low mix. The main factor: "The language barrier"...

As voters and former elected officials leave the Republican party, the drifts in voter identification come into focus. In the weeks since the January riot at the Capitol, there has been a raft of stories about voters across the country leaving the Republican Party. Some of the numbers are...

Iran has invested more of its limited capabilities in its aspiration to upend the U.S.-led world order than perhaps any other country in the world, including China and Russia. In so doing, it has neglected the well-being of its people and made itself poorer and...

The sentence I hear most from well-meaning, conservative friends since President Trump’s election is this: “We suffered 8 years under Barack Obama.”

Fair enough. Let’s take a look...

Over the last 70 years, we’ve been identified by the U.S. government as “of Mexican origin,” “Spanish Mother Tongue,” “Spanish Surname,” “Spanish speaking,” “Latino,” and “Hispanic.” During the 2010 Census, my cousin, a Mexican, called me to ask, “primo, what am I?” After all these labels, any confusion over what to call ourselves should be understandable. The only identifier that has stuck is Hispanic.

The Justice Department sided with the state of Ohio on Wednesday on its legislation that outlaws physicians from performing abortions based on a diagnosis of Down syndrome.

In its filing, the federal government stated: "Nothing in Ohio’s law creates a substantial obstacle to women obtaining an abortion, and nothing in the Constitution or Supreme Court precedent requires States to ...