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Evangelicals protest Serpent Mound, tell Native Americans: “This land will be taken in the name of Jesus”

A fundamentalist Christian church from Hebron (Ohio) with a history of stirring up trouble and worshiping Trump converged on Serpent Mound over the weekend to protest its annual Winter Solstice celebration, seeking to “pray down” the “demon”…

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Update on Mory Keita: ICE deports Columbus immigrant who’s key witness in brutality suit

The Columbus immigrant who is a key witness in a federal civil rights suit alleging excessive force by corrections officers at the notorious Butler County jail was indeed deported back to his native Africa even though a federal judge had ruled U.…

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The Exercise to Keep America Divided – Fact or Fiction? A Book Review

Following Donald Trump’s triumph in the 2016 election, Ohio writer Jef Benedetti asked a disturbing but not impossible question: What if the two major political parties were colluding to keep power at the top while keeping the rest of the country…

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Local media fails to tell the whole story of Casey Goodson's murder

How is it that the New York Times reported that, “In the moment before Casey Goodson Jr. was shot dead by a sheriff’s deputy at the entrance of his home, his lifelong neighbor heard a man shouting, as if he were arguing, and then a burst of…

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