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Bob Bites Back: City Report on Police Conduct Shows Race is the Issue

Bob Fitrakis

Being shot by the police is sadly a leading cause of death for black males in this country,…

// Opinion
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Hot Times Hopes to Shine in 2019 after Last Year’s Rain-Shortened Festival

Bryan Curtiss

Hot times, music, and hopefully sunny weather are on their way back to Olde Towne East as the…

// Opinion
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Ohio Senate Trespasses on First Amendment

Bob Fitrakis

There’s a mantra that Americans are the freest people in the world. The First Amendment…

// News
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Book Review: They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Marilyn Howard

As a professor of African American history, I have very little interest in slavery. I am…

// Opinion
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