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Black Girl Miracle Pop-Up Art Exhibit

Sunday, March 24, 5-8pm

Urban Arts Space, Lazarus building, 50 W. Town St.

#WomensHistoryMonth is HERE, and Black Girl Miracle is celebrating by hosting a pop-up gallery experience! Over the last six months, we've collaborated with some…

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Support Masonique Saunders - Victim of Columbus Police Injustice

https://youtu.be/9zMu9Y7aues


Featured during this esteemed film festival is a real life example of biased law-enforcement running roughshod over a community of color. A challenge to our solidarity, a plea to donate to the defense fund for…

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Book review: Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House by Joshua Zeitz

The legacy of President Lyndon B. Johnson has been and forever shall be overshadowed by the war in Vietnam. But LBJ’s administration was about more than what he referred to as “that bitch of a war.” In the space of a little more than two years,…

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Six week abortion ban passes Senate

The Ohio Senate passed SB23 yesterday to restrict abortion to the first six weeks of a woman’s pregnancy, in a vote of 19 to 13.


Republican Senator Kristina Roegner, the sponsor of the bill, told the Columbus Free Press after the vote, “…

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