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Columbus Community Pride 2018: Back to Our Roots

Shortly after the Columbus Community Pride festival started on Saturday, June 16 at Mayme Moore Park in Columbus, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy – an activist for more than 50 plus years fighting for Black Tran’s Liberation – gave a speech on stage to…

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People on both sides of a street protesting each other

Hate group targets local mosque

A hundred or more Columbus people stood in a single file line in front of the Omar Ibn El-Khattab Mosque to protect it from a few dozen protestors -- presumably the "God Hates Fags" folks that arrive in the city every year to preach during the…

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Police al suited up with helmets and bikes attacking stationary black people with black tape over their mouths

Columbus Police embrace white Pride

Gay, lesbian, trans, queer people including drag queens shut down a major street downtown, disrupt traffic in the middle of the day on Friday, June 15 to protest Vice President Mike Pence – and what do the Columbus Police do? Let them.


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People marching outside in shorts with trees in background carrying signs, one saying Give us your tired poor

March to #EndFamilySeparation. “Stop the deportations! Not one more!”

Families in Columbus Ohio, along with their children, came together and took to the streets on Thursday, June 14th from 5-7pm EST. They came together at Goodale Park, to talk about and protest for the end of family separation. The protest and…

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