Cleveland’s African American Cultural Garden looks to 2nd phase of construction

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Obie Shelton is our travel guide showing us the way. The former 3News reporter, who still lives and works in Greater Cleveland, is at times more than that

Don’t let this throw you: He is a time traveler, taking those with him through the years, the generations, the centuries.

Today is one of those occasions, as we are stepping deep into the past. Come with me and Obie — time traveler, storyteller, and historian.

“This will be a way to tell that story,” he says, “because it chronicles everything.”

The “everything” of which Shelton speaks is the story of a people: the African Americans. This is the African American Garden of the world-renowned Cleveland Cultural Gardens. Running along Martin Luther King Drive and East Boulevard, the stops number more than 30, each representing an ethnic group in Northeast Ohio.

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