“We had plans. We were going places,” poet Naomi Shihab Nyes wrote in her opening stanza of “Dear Vaccine.”
Her words serve as both invitation and inspiration for others to share their pandemic hopes, grief, humor and insight on an interactive community project called the Global Vaccine Poem.
The collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and the University of Arizona Poetry Center aims to create meaning from hardship, spread vaccine awareness and build on Wick’s Traveling Stanzas project that fuses poetry with everyday life.
David Hassler, director of Wick, said the ambitious project aims to include the voices of 1 million people.
Akron man found guilty of raping developmentally-delayed teen Craig McClellan (Source: Summit County Prosecutor s Office) By Rachel Vadaj | March 16, 2021 at 11:54 PM EDT - Updated March 16 at 11:54 PM
AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh confirmed on Tuesday that Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Tammy OâBrien found 50-year-old Craig McClellan of Falls Avenue in Akron guilty of several charges involving the sexual assault of a developmentally-delayed teen he knew.
Judge OâBrien found McClellan guilty of the following charges during the bench trial:
2 counts of rape
3 counts of gross sexual imposition
The report stated the teen spoke up in 2019 about McClellan touching her private areas on multiple occasions.
His body was dismembered and stuffed in a barrel.
Cleveland investigators weren’t able to determine the identity of this young Black man whose life met such a gruesome end in August 1969, though they thought his death might have been tied to the Black Panthers or Black nationalist movement.
The Porchlight Project, an Akron group that tries to shine new light on cold cases, has taken on this case as its next mystery.
“This is a piece of Cleveland history that remains untold,” said James Renner, the Akron author who heads the Porchlight Project. “We’re excited to provide the means to finally give a name to this man so that we can learn how he came to be here and who may have wanted him dead.”
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The incident took place in January of 2018. Author: WKYC Staff Updated: 4:00 PM EST February 17, 2021
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On Wednesday, the Summit County Prosecutor s Office announced the sentencing of 52-year-old Hedy Moss for the shooting of two men in Akron, which claimed the life of one.
Moss was sentenced by Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Kelly McLaughlin to life in prison for the 2018 murder of Ernest Sherman.
The incident happened on Jan. 16, 2018, when Moss was in a home occupied by Sherman and James McMullen, and the three began arguing over a gun, which was allegedly stolen. Moss then shot the two men during the dispute.