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New Picture Book Coming Soon! The Lincoln School Marchers of Hillsboro, OH

From 1954 to 1956, nineteen Black mothers and thirty-seven children in Hillsboro, Ohio marched daily from their homes to the segregated Webster Elementary School to demand Black students be allowed to enroll. The school for…

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Busting Myths: The Ohio Humanities Council v. the Humanities and Humanity

There is endless chatter about the “decline of,” “loss of interest in,” or “end of” the humanities among and about college students and the never defined “general public” for decades, perhaps ever since the vague term “the humanities” came into…

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Not a leftist conspiracy - stopping qualified immunity will make police more accountable

Hours after Ohio’s Issue 1 went down in the August special election, Secretary of State Frank LaRose “sounded the alarm” on Fox News about the latest proposed constitutional amendment to end Qualified Immunity for law enforcement.

Sore…

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Legendary Volunteer - In Memoriam: Gregory Gross

Columbus’ activist community lost one of our long-time social justice advocates when Gregory Gross, 66, passed unexpectedly in his sleep on August 13, 2023.

Gregory was originally from New Jersey and his family resides there. He studied…

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