Cleveland marketing firm launches YouTube series highlighting some of the city's most important …

Chardonnay Graham and Kofi Amponsah of Touch Cleveland have produced a series called “Roses: Living Legends” to celebrate and honor Cleveland’s senior leaders aged 70 and over. Amponsah (left) and Graham (right) released a four-part docuseries in November to help Cleveland Black business owners share their stories of how systemic racism has affected their lives and enterprise. (Touch Cleveland)CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland marketing firm Touch Cleveland will launch a new YouTube series designed to celebrate Cleveland’s Black senior leaders aged 70 and over.“Roses: Living Legends,” part of the agency’s Unspoken: Community and Business Conversations lineup, will run from Aug. 15-20. One interview will be shown each day on Touch Cleveland’s YouTube channel. Third Space Action Lab will show a sneak preview of the series Aug. 13 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. during one of its Intergenerational Lunches. The preview will include the interview with retired Plain Dealer reporter and Call & Post reporter Dick Peery.The Intergenerational Lunches have provided Clevelanders of all ages with an opportunity to share and listen to stories of life in the city’s mostly Black East Side communities, according to a news release.“Over the last year, so much buried and forgotten Black history has resurfaced.…
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