Music filled the streets in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood Friday night. The Cleveland neighborhood celebrated the culture of many of the families that call it home.
At the Cleveland Public Library in the neighborhood, a celebration kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month. Dr. Raquel Ortiz read and sang one of the books she wrote,"When Julia Danced Bomba."
Ortiz is on a mission to improve literacy in her community. For the last year, she has traveled to many Cleveland area public libraries, reading her books in Spanish and English. Husband and wife duo Ivan and Nydvia Ruiz own Rincon Criollo. They have been serving their Puerto Rican family recipes to Clevelanders for decades.All their food is homemade every day. A labor of love, being served on Friday night in the same neighborhood where their love story began. The couple got married at St. Michael's church 33 years ago this month.
"I heard one night that it's going to be about a landscape from Guatemala, I got so excited because I am from there," said Hector Castellanos Lara, an artist in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood.