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Today ideastream kicks off Divided by Design, a series looking into how historic practices, policies, and prejudices contributed to segregation, and inform issues we’re still dealing with today.

As she cradles three-year old Jackson in her lap, Robin Brown coaxes him to count. "Say one … two … come on Jackson," says Brown. But all she gets from her great nephew is a blank stare. "This look is the look that hurts, when you see a look on a child's face that they want to do something but can't. That hurts," said Brown.

Often when groups play classic early jazz, they approach the music as period pieces to be performed reverentially. That’s not what you’ll hear when the Hot 9 plays jazz from the 1920s and 30s at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Trumpeter Steven Bernstein, who co-leads the ensemble with pianist Henry Butler said that the group has no interest in re-creating the past.

In April of 1965, Students for a Democratic Society organized an antiwar march on Washington. It was the largest protest up to that point, more than 20,000 people showed up. But SDS, originally a civil rights group, stopped organizing against the war. A couple other attempts at stitching together the young, mostly local opposition to the war came along but were torn apart by infighting and the demands of keeping everyone together. Then the movement came to Cleveland.

Part 1 of a series The environmental movement started more than a century ago. Theodore Roosevelt was known as the conservation president, and there’s a famous 1903 photo of him with the Sierra Club’s founder.

The quake occurred close to the site where the country detonated a hydrogen bomb earlier this month.

By Veronica Volk Julie Cataldo is strapped into a harness as she sits in her wheelchair just a few feet from the edge of the Erie Canal. A hydraulic lift hoists her from the chair and swings her out over the water. The lift lowers her into a kayak, and its operator adjusts her seat. This is Cataldo’s second time in a single kayak, and in a few minutes, she’s cruising alone down the Canal near Rochester, N.Y.

Ohio public officials offered prayers, condolences and calls for a renewed focus on weapons after a gunman killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds in Las Vegas. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown called such shootings “one of the saddest aspects of our culture now.”

The U.S. and NATO are staging their largest military exercises since the end of the Cold War, and they're doing it in countries of 3 former members of the Warsaw Pact: Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary.

More than 800 artifacts, some of which have never before been seen by the public, are now on display at a new exhibit called “Cleveland Starts Here.” It’s at the Western Reserve Historical Society, which is rebranding itself as the Cleveland History Center.