Cleveland Videos

See video Choosing to Participate on WKYC, Cleveland

WKYC's Kim Wheeler toured Facing History and Ourselves' nationally acclaimed multimedia exhibit Choosing to Participate with Facing History staff and local high school students at its launch in Cleveland. 

Visit the Choosing to Participate website.

See video Cleveland Upstanders: Portraits of Courage

Each day our friends, neighbors and family members make decisions, large and small, that help create positive change in our world.  See activists talk about what it means to be an upstander as part of Facing History and Ourselves' Choosing to Participate exhibition on display through February 2010 at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland.

See video Teacher Greg D Speaks at Cleveland '08 Benefit Dinner
Greg D., a Facing History teacher, speaks about the organization's challenge to its teachers and students: to take seriously one's choices, actions and attitudes.
See video Perception: Jonathan L reads his poem

Last spring Jonathan wrote a poem called "Perception" about how prejudice influences our decisions about helping others. It won a regional poetry contest sponsored by the Cleveland Playhouse. Jonathan then went on to participate in a national contest and placed 12th.

See video Student Sunni W. Speaks at the 2007 Cleveland Benefit Dinner
Sunni W. speaks at the 2007 Cleveland Benefit Dinner about what she has learned as a Facing History student.
See video Student Kevin F.at the 2007 Cleveland Benefit Dinner
Kevin F., a Facing History and Ourselves student, speaks at the 2007 Cleveland Benefit Dinner about what he learned in his Facing History class.
See video Andi G., Facing History Teacher
Andi G., a Facing History teacher, speaks about the obligation of teachers and students to face the challenges that history brings to humanity.