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Comments on the history of African-Americans and the Columbus Fire Department

In 1973 six black men filed a class action lawsuit in the US District Court, Southern District, Eastern division, against Columbus city officials for racial discrimination in the hiring of firefighters. The city was found guilty of employing…
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Martin Luther King Jr.: Remembering the man for all that he was

When we think of Martin Luther King, Jr., most of us think of King the dreamer, who spoke to the more than 200,000 people amassed in front of the Lincoln Memorial on that sultry August day in  1963. We think of the man whose soaring rhetoric–…
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Rapping teens and their domineering dads

Wow, this show sure is dope. If you don’t know any vintage hip-hop slang before seeing How We Got On, don’t worry. You’ll pick some up along the way.
  
And besides, you don’t have to be in tune with rap culture to understand what’s going…
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The destruction of a neighborhood and thus its history

As a child in the sixties living in Poindexter Village, I remember running and playing in the safe surroundings of the apartment buildings on our court. I didn’t know, or care at the time, that Poindexter Village was one of the oldest public housing…
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