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Book Review: Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault
I had the pleasure of meeting Arthur Ashe in the early 1980s. It was in a little tennis shop in a strip mall somewhere on Bethel Road. He was representing his brand, Le Coq Sportif, and the store was full of white children who weren’t even born…
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Rally Says NO to Trump's Global Gag Rule
The sound of powerful chants, cheers, and cars honking in support of reproductive rights echoed down West Broad Street on Wednesday afternoon as activists and community members came together outside of Senator Portman’s Columbus office to protest…
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Why Epstein is Dead
So, Jeff Epstein “committed suicide” while on suicide watch in prison. This was widely predicted, since Epstein, in part to gratify himself, was running one of the world’s most notorious “honey traps.” if you were rich or powerful and liked…
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What Resistance Against Immigrant Detention is all about
On Wednesday, August 7, I had the opportunity to attend a meeting for an activist group called RAID. RAID stands for Resistance Against Immigrant Detention. The goal of RAID is to stop the Department of Homeland Security and the Immigration and…
// Opinion