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An art exhibit celebrating Clarissa Street, the center of Rochesters Black community for more than 150 years, will run through July 24.

An art exhibit celebrating Clarissa Street, the center of Rochesters Black community for more than 150 years, will run through July 24.

Starting on June 3, the exhibit “Clarissa Uprooted: Unearthing Stories of Our Village (1940s-early 1970s)” will open in the RIT City Art Space. This show, created through a partnership between the Center for Teen Empowerment in Rochester and the Clarissa Street Reunion Committee, has involved a number of collaborators including RIT faculty and students from the College of Art and Design and the College of Liberal Arts.

The Democrat and Chronicle has a rich history of hosting community discussions. Such events presenting multiple views on pressing issues facing Rochester and Monroe County have taken place in schools, in community centers and in our own building. The coronavirus pandemic put such in-person gatherings on hold, unfortunately. Whats emerged since has been a series of video chat discussions involving Rochesterians on a variety of relevant topics since early 2020. In just the past month or so, the...