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Jonathan Beard
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Columbus, Ohio Black Community Leaders request Columbus City Council to act on Voting Rights issues created by citizen petition
Leaders in the Black community of Columbus, Ohio, who support a change to the Columbus City Charter to move to true district representation have filed an urgent request for council action, to City Council President Shannon Hardin.In a letter dated March 26, 2026, the group of Black community elders…
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Columbus City Council format gets the smackdown from civil rights law experts: Columbus Black elected officials comfortable with racially discriminatory elections
Columbus City Council members opened up their emails on November 20 to find a letter from Leah Aden, Senior Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (the “LDF”) calling for their attention. The LDF, which President Obama once called “simply the best civil rights law firm in American history,” sent…
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Bamboozling Black Folk: The Silent Conspiracy to Maintain Columbus’s Discriminatory At-Large City Council Elections
Columbus Oligarchy and Franklin County Democratic Politicians Defend Our Racially Biased System – Embracing Racial Superiority as “The Columbus Way”
In recognition of Black History Month, as Board Chair of The Columbus Free Press, I explore the racist origins and dubious legality of Columbus’s at-…
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Columbus Action Network weighs in on police, City Council, and levies
Opposition to City Council format and city schools levy growing from the grassroots
Feds called to investigate Columbus Police and legality of at-large City Council
Three groups now opposing school levy hike
The Executive Committee of the Columbus Action Network (CAN), which is the Greater…