WAITING FOR SUNFLOWERS WITH D’ANGELO KNUCKLES AND ALI Boyd

WAITING FOR SUNFLOWERS WITH D’ANGELO KNUCKLES AND ALI Boyd

Today I meet resident and community activist D’Angelo Knuckles in an office at the St. Luke’s Foundation. We’d been planning to talk there for a while, but it’s a sunny day and we’ve both gotten an invitation to help plant sunflowers at the local library, so instead we head outside.

SOME CONTEXT - CREATIVE PLACEMAKING

SOME CONTEXT - CREATIVE PLACEMAKING

Sanders Henderson, the multi-talented owner of Nikki's Music - rightfully calls himself a workaholic. But as Justin asked in a recent post, does he think of himself as an artist? Does he see his many creative skills - in music events, store displays and balloon creations - as a way to contribute to community change? It's an important question. 

THE PROBLEM OF CRIME, BOTH REAL AND PERCEIVED

THE PROBLEM OF CRIME, BOTH REAL AND PERCEIVED

John Hopkins is executive director of the Buckeye Shaker Square Development Corporation, the neighborhood’s nonprofit development organization. He’s been helping me and Seth since before we moved in, assisting us in our search for space and providing invaluable information about Buckeye’s past and present.