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A press conference with a black man in a suit holding a mic for another black man with glasses and a white shirt to talk into and other people standing around watching

Columbus City Council format gets the smackdown from civil rights law experts: Columbus Black elected officials comfortable with racially discriminatory elections

Jonathan Beard

Columbus City Council members opened up their emails on November 20 to find a letter from Leah…

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The words Renee was HERE spray painted on a brown wall and a black woman with short hair and a red and white shirt with a black necklace and black pants stands against the wall looking to the right

2017 Taught us the G.O.P. Is Not A Utopia

Wes Flexner

We finished at most 25 percent, or hopefully 50 percent, of suffering through a horrible new…

// Opinion
Four photos of men in band put together in one block, top left a white man with a brown beard playing a guitar and signing, top right a black man in a hat and goatee with plaid shirt and brown jacket leaning away from a mic while singing, bottom left a white man with grayish hair mouth wide open at mic and bottom right a bald man playing a guitar at a mic

Concert review: Last Waltz Tribute

Ed Forman

On November 26, 1976, legendary Canadian-American rock group The Band performed their final…

// Opinion
Women outside wearing pink winter hats holding signs and a big banner that says OHIO

Bob Bites Back: We Salute the Resistance

Bob Fitrakis

 


Fascist regimes rely on the oppressive and authoritarian power of the state. The…

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