TSAL PRESS
july 2024
Four finalists present approaches for the Akron Innerbelt project
7/26/2024
Mordecai Cargill, who joined the Sasaki team on the stage, joked that the “American Idol” selection process for selecting firms reflects the importance of allowing feedback from Akron residents.
“You have some of the best designers in the world deciding we want to contribute to doing something that hasn’t been done before,” said Cargill, the co-founder and creative director of ThirdSpace Action Lab and Third Space Café in Cleveland. “To contribute to the work of healing. And recovery. And remembering. That it’s not just a painful process … it’s a process that’s supposed to lead us to new visions.”
JUNE 2024
Green Book Cleveland: Preserving history and celebrating Black recreation and leisure
NEW RESEARCH GIVES DIFFERENT—BUT COMPLEMENTARY—LOOKS AT THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FIELD
FEBRUARY 2024
Third Space Action Lab salutes Robert P. Madison, 100-year-old Cleveland architect and ‘Civil Rights legend’
2023
Black design and activism in Cleveland
11/9/2023
As part of ThirdSpace Action Lab’s Inclusivity Matters: Elevating Voices in the Anthology of Blackness event, Omari Souza held a lecture and book signing Thursday, November 9 to discuss “An Anthology of Blackness: The State of Black Design,” a book he co-authored with Terresa Moses, creative director at Blackbird Revolt.
Source - Signalcleveland.org
60% complete Cleveland downtown lakefront plan calls for affordable fun, scaled-down Shoreway, eventual move for Browns tailgaters
10/20/2023
TSAL has been working with the City of Cleveland to solicit community engagement around the North Coast Master Plan. This article highlights some of that work and updates on the plan.
Source - cleveland.com
It Takes One: ThirdSpace Action Lab
6/15/2023
A beautiful feature highlighting the work of TSAL, specifically TSAL's commitment to Cleveland history through Chocolate City Cleveland, and racial equity through the racial equity institute and our consulting practice.
Source - tclf.org
Why ThirdSpace Reading Room is Vital Resource for Glenville
5/1/2023
We are so thankful to Clevleland Mag and Rhonda Crowder for featuring ThirdSpace Reading Room and many of our team members. This article highlights the Reading Room as a valuable space to the Glenville community by encouraging Black readership, Black owned business and community spaces.
Source - clevelandmagazine.com
Closing Northeast Ohio’s racial wealth gap is a social, moral and economic endeavor
4/10/2023
TSAL Business Development Manager Benjamin Collinger + NAACP Cleveland Chapter president among others discuss the imperative around addressing the racial wealth gap.
Source - crainscleveland.com
Toni Morrison community reading celebrates award-winning author's legacy and Northeast Ohio ties
2/17/2023
ThirdSpace Reading Room and TSAL Community Manager Harry Atwell was featured for honoring Northeast Ohio legacy Toni Morrison.
Source - fox8.com
2022
ThirdSpace Action Lab opens a bookstore in Glenville
2021
New Cleveland Organization, Assembly for the Arts, Launches With Mission to Elevate All Regional Artists, Improve Diversity and Inclusion
11/15/2021
The Assembly hinges on the concept of “collective impact,” and one of its first orders of business is to create a comprehensive racial equity program agenda with the help of the arts community.
Source - clevescene.com
Holden Arboretum, Cleveland Botanical Garden, make equity focus of master planning process
11/15/2021
Holden Arboretum, Cleveland Botanical Garden, make equity focus of master planning process
Source - Cleveland.com
Survey: Black women business owners in Ohio need funding, support to rise
11/15/2021
Access to capital is the most urgent need for Black businesswomen, according to a new surveys.
Source - dispatch.com
Victim No. 79: America’s homicide crisis claimed my childhood friend
10/18/2021
Eric Smith isn’t just another statistic. He and my hometown were caught in this country’s other pandemic.
Source - theundefeated.com
Ohio Community Development Association Gathers Next Week in Youngstown
9/29/2021
“Community development corporations across the state are empowering communities to take local action creating local results."
Source - businessjournaldaily.com
Bursting with color: MidTown to bring in 19 murals, live entertainment during Cleveland Walls! event
8/19/2021
For two years now, officials at MidTown Cleveland, LAND Studio, and Pow! Wow! Worldwide have been working on a mural and arts program to bring a slew of murals and a week of arts programming to the neighborhood. The coronavirus pandemic delayed the event last year, but now the week-long event is happening.
Source - freshwatercleveland.com
Cleveland marketing firm launches YouTube series highlighting some of the city’s most important Black leaders over 70
8/6/2021
Cleveland marketing firm Touch Cleveland will launch a new YouTube series designed to celebrate Cleveland’s Black senior leaders aged 70 and over.
Source - cleveland.com
Leading for Justice: Supervision, Hr, and Culture
8/3/2021
This book explores topics around supervision, HR, and culture in organizations and companies focused on social justice. As a company committed to racial equity and inclusion internally and that explores these issues with external partners, I'm excited to keep reading and see what can be incorporated in theory and practice.
Source - bookshop.org
High Stakes and New Leaders: Assessing What Cleveland Needs
7/23/2021
So, what kind of leadership does this moment call for? With all the challenges of the last year, and the aspirations of our community, what kind of leadership qualities are required for our collective success?
Source - cityclub,org
Creating a Black ‘Third Place’ in Cleveland
7/22/2021
Building in Glenville, the ThirdSpace Action Lab has hosted racial equity workshops, community events, art exhibits and projects like Chocolate City Cleveland, a multigenerational and multimedia experiment to center storytelling about the city’s Black neighborhoods and recreate the Black map of Cleveland.
Source - NextCity.org
WHAT’S NEXT, WITH MORDECAI CARGILL ?
5/20/2021
In the conversation, Cargill discusses place-making, critical fabulation and sonic character in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood.
Source - canjournal.org
MOCA Cleveland cancels second major show in a year amid racial equity discussions
5/19/2021
The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, shadowed by a race-related controversy over its earlier cancellation of a traveling exhibition, has withdrawn from participating in a second major exhibition in a year as it strives to reposition itself on issues of race and equity
Source - Cleveland.com
MOCA Cleveland’s new shows raise more questions than they answer about 2020 turmoil over racial blind spots
4/4/2021
The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, hamstrung by closures related the coronavirus pandemic and shadowed by a race-related controversy last spring, has quietly reopened at something approximating full artistic strength.
Source - Cleveland.com
Living Cities Announces "Year of Reckoning" Work in Cities Across the Nation
2/25/2021
City Leaders Across Sectors will Engage in Anti-Racist Practices Over the Next Decade to Close Racial Income and Wealth Gaps
Source - prnewswire.com
A Bold New Show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland Calls Out the Institution’s Own ‘Consistent Anti-Black Practices
2/16/2021
The exhibition comes during a nationwide reckoning in which art museums are being called to account for their histories, including being led and staffed overwhelmingly by white people and neglecting the work of Black artists
Source - artnet.com
Defining what it means to be "anti-racist," and how to be a better ally: 3 Things to Know with Stephanie Haney
2/4/2021
ThirdSpace Action Lab CEO Evelyn Burnett discusses the meaning of being "anti-racist" on the 3 Things to Know with Stephanie Haney podcast
Source - wkyc.com
How to celebrate Cleveland’s Black history during Black History month in February
2/4/2021
“From history and science to art, culture, and education, many groundbreaking moments and places in Black history exist in Cleveland.”
Source - Cleveland.com
13 ways to celebrate Black History Month in Northeast Ohio
1/29/2021
Highlighting events from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to Karamu House and more.
Source- Wkyc.com
2020
Mordecai Cargill - Activating Space and Activating People
11/27/2020
Alexa sits down with Mordecai Cargill to talk about a small business called ThirdSpace Action Lab that is working to lift up communities and bring racial equality.
Source- wkyc.com
America's Crisis: Are We Finally Ready to Confront Racism?
6/5/2020
At the end of May, when much of the country was starting to re-open after months of shutdown in an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19, the United States experienced a series of events that has the potential to change the course of history.
Source- Cityclub.org
Masks 4 Community coalition will distribute 60,000 washable face masks in low-income areas hit hard by coronavirus
6/2/2020
Community organizations aided by more than $110,000 in grants will distribute 60,000 free, washable face masks and health information kits to residents in low-income neighborhoods hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
Sourcd - Cleveland.com
The key to a more equitable outdoors? Democracy.
5/20/2020
To give everyone a safe place to get outside and connect with neighbors, quality parks must be a part of our towns and cities moving forward.
Source - grist.org
FRONT INTERNATIONAL REVEALS THEME, TITLE, AND ARTISTIC TEAM FOR 2021 EDITION
1/14/2020
Titled “Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows,” after a 1957 poem by Langston Hughes, who moved to Cleveland in his childhood, the triennial will focus on labor, the environment, and the “exploitation, alienation, and degradation caused by capital.”
Source - Artforum.com
2019
With retail incubator set to open, Glenville envisions a new future
12/12/2019
“And it's not unique to Glenville. Any place that is predominantly black, or predominantly Latino, has a perception problem, even if it's a really nice place. That's one of the things that we understand through our growing awareness of the history and persistence of structural racism. There is the red line that's on the map. And then there's the red line that follows you wherever you go.”
Source - freshwatercleveland.com
The Soul Of Philanthropy exhibit celebrates black Clevelanders who give back to the community
9/15/2019
The traveling exhibit “Giving Back: The Soul of Philanthropy Reframed and Exhibited” at the Cleveland History Center, 10825 East Blvd., opened Sept. 6 and runs through Dec. 6.
Source - Cleveland.com
Evelyn Burnett and Mordecai Cargill Are Not Here to be Polite About Cleveland Leadership and Racial Equity
3/20/2019
If you got rid of Evelyn Burnett and Mordecai Cargill, the first floor of the Medical Associates Building on East 105th Street would be virtually empty. But the building's not getting rid of Evelyn and Mordecai. Nor is Glenville. Nor even, despite its time-honored tradition of ignoring, suppressing or expelling its fiercest and bravest emerging leaders, is the city of Cleveland.
Source- clevescene.com
