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Marilyn Howard
Dr. Marilyn K. Howard earned her PhD in American history from The Ohio State University (Dissertation: Black Lynching in the Promised Land: Mob Violence in Ohio 1876 - 1916). She is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at Columbus State Community College. She has published essays in a number of anthologies, including the Encyclopedia of Racial Violence in America and the Encyclopedia of Jim Crow. She continues to conduct research on the lynching of black men by white mobs in Ohio.
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Book Review: It’s No Wonder: The Life and Times of Motown’s Legendary Songwriter Sylvia Moy by Margena A. Christian
As a Baby Boomer, I grew up on some of the best rhythm and blues, soul, and funk music produced in the 1960s and 1970s. Motown artists were a huge part of the soundtrack of my teenage and college years. During that time period, perhaps no record label aimed at young people was more successful,…
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Book Review - Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America by Eugene Robinson
I have never been particularly interested in tracing my family tree. I’ve always enjoyed hearing family stories, but not enough to do the detailed detective work needed to trace back any further than my grandparents on either side. At one time my cousin Lawrence had done some digging and found that…
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First Great Sorrow: My Years With Robert F. Kennedy by Donna Chaffee
It was the last week of my sixth grade year when Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968. It was just two months earlier that Martin Luther King, Jr., had been murdered, and I remember all the magazines my mother got–Life, Look, Ebony, Jet–and reading about both assassinations over and over. …
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Book Review: 107 Days by Kamala Harris
On June 27, 2024, then President Joe Biden participated in a nationally televised debate with former president Donald Trump, and by most accounts it was a disaster for him. Trump was his usual bombastic self, spinning conspiracies, spouting lies, disseminating disinformation and half-truths,…