Soul food is an American cuisine, a selection of foods, typically associated with African Americans of the Southern United States. In the mid-1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement was just beginning, "soul" was a common adjective used to describe African American culture, and thus the name "soul food" was derived.

Cleveland police said the house was strewn with human and cat feces, rotting food, other trash and pornography. They also found clothes stacked next to a working space heater. Officers watched cats and the children eat out of the same food containers, the toilet hadn't been cleaned,...

Cleveland police said the house was strewn with human and cat feces, rotting food, other trash and pornography. They also found clothes stacked next to a working space heater. Officers watched cats and the children eat out of the same food containers, the toilet hadn't been cleaned,...

When the answering machine picks up at DeVoice and Nicole Miller's southeast Cleveland home during Kwanzaa, you won't hear any predictable greeting.Instead, you'll hear "Habari gani" -- "what's the news" in Swahili -- followed by a personalized message that reflects one of seven principles associated with the holiday. UMOJA NIA UNITY

Is it more important to pay the rent or pay the health insurance premium? Buy food for the family or life-saving medications? Those are choices many Cleveland residents have to make every day. Because most health care facilities see the uninsured as a liability they can do without. So they are discarded. By the thousands. But we at The Free Clinic

Will Cleveland chef Michael Symon cook his way to the top of the Food Network lineup or get pushed to the side of the TV dinner plate?