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What’s in a Name – The Columbus Black Theater Festival
The Columbus Black Theatre Festival (CBTF) celebrates its seventh year this July. As an African American playwright myself, my goal for the CBTF is to showcase original plays by other Black playwrights – especially new playwrights – to encourage…
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Twenty or so years at the Community Festival*
My earliest memory of Comfest was probably the Summer of 2000. I was in the process of wrapping up a degree at Ohio State and living at a place on Tompkins Street. I was sort of dragooned into going by the guys who lived next door, who were more…
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Pride means more than marching in a parade once a year
There are ways for straight and cis people to be supportive to the LGBTQ+ community that are more impactful than attending a Pride parade as an onlooker or marcher:
1. Volunteer with organizations that are putting on Pride events doing the…
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Ohio's Atomic Socialism
Testimony before the Ohio legislature on House Bill 6, Ohio’s nuclear and coal plant bailout bill which ironically also cuts off funds for renewable energies.
Is Ohio's legislature declaring a state of atomic socialism?
It seems…
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