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Book Review: Alabama v King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement by Dan Abrams and Fred Gray with David Fisher
During my decades-long teaching career, I have found that one of the reasons students shy away from history classes is they are afraid they will be forced to “memorize all those dates.” One pair of dates that they had tp grapple with sought to…
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Why won’t Columbus, Ohio, grow up?
This essay grows from an informal conversation over coffee with a friend. As I criticized the former mayor, but far more influential chair of the self-appointed and uncontrolled Downtown Development Commission’s unembarrassed promotion of an…
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Movie Review: Halloween Ends – the iconic horror franchise comes to an end by sidelining everyone’s favorite slasher
Let's rewind the clocks back to 1978. John Carpenter's "Halloween" kicks off the slasher genre into high gear with inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho. That creates the end of 70s early 80s big slasher hits. Inevitably creating a string…
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Evangelical group urges Ohio voters of faith to denounce Christian nationalism and extremism
The national evangelical group Vote Common Good swept through Ohio this week urging fellow Christians to defeat election-denying, insurrection-supporting candidates in November.
Vote Common Good (VCG) has been trying to educate…
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