81/61

Greater Cleveland Partnership
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It's 1981. Reagan was just inaugurated. Cleveland is emerging from default. We're reeling from manufacturing losses. Racial division abounds. The Greater Cleveland Roundtable, a coalition of CEOs and community leaders, is searching for ways to regain their region's growth and struggling with ways to include folks of color. 81/61 reckons with their effort by exploring the organization's lost document archive and to tell a story about where we have been in the last 40 years and how we might achieve racial equity in the next 40. 81/61 is an original series from the Greater Cleveland Partnership. New episodes are released every two weeks between June 7th and August 16th, 2021. 81/61 is generously supported by the George Gund Foundation.

Episodes

  1. 08/02/2021

    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?

    31 min

  2. 08/02/2021

    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.

    33 min

  3. 07/19/2021

    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?

    29 min

  4. 07/01/2021

    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.

    24 min

  5. 06/21/2021

    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.

    22 min

  6. 06/07/2021

    I: No Seat At The Table

    Cleveland's accelerating racial division in the 1960s and economic slide in the 1970s inspired CEOs from Eaton, Standard Oil, TRW, and others to create a new civic consensus. Hear about how Cleveland's default sparked an effort that aimed to include folks of color.

    25 min

  7. SEASON 1, EPISODE 1 TRAILER

    81/61, Coming June 7th

    It's 1981. Reagan was just inaugurated. Cleveland is emerging from default. We're reeling from manufacturing losses and racial division. The Greater Cleveland Roundtable, a group of CEOs and community leaders, is searching for methods to regain their region's growth and how to include folks of color. 81/61 reckons with their effort by exploring the organization's document archive and to tell a story about where we have been in the last 40 years and how we might achieve racial equity in the next 40. 81/61 is an original series from the Greater Cleveland Partnership.

    1 min

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It's 1981. Reagan was just inaugurated. Cleveland is emerging from default. We're reeling from manufacturing losses. Racial division abounds. The Greater Cleveland Roundtable, a coalition of CEOs and community leaders, is searching for ways to regain their region's growth and struggling with ways to include folks of color. 81/61 reckons with their effort by exploring the organization's lost document archive and to tell a story about where we have been in the last 40 years and how we might achieve racial equity in the next 40. 81/61 is an original series from the Greater Cleveland Partnership. New episodes are released every two weeks between June 7th and August 16th, 2021. 81/61 is generously supported by the George Gund Foundation.

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  • Creator
    Greater Cleveland Partnership
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    7
  • Rating
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  • Show Website
    81/61