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After celebrating the opening of his STEM-based I Promise School for at-risk youth, LeBron James took direct shots at President Trump’s leadership while speaking with CNN’s Don Lemon. On Monday, the mega-athlete and humanitarian held nothing back during his discussion with Lemon. He candidly shared his thoughts about Trump and…
LeBron James refuses to allow society to box him into being solely an athlete. Knowing first-hand what it means to overcome adversity at an early age, the L.A. Lakers’ newest star has found the ultimate way to give back to his hometown by opening the “I Promise School.” If we…
Jeffrey Whitman, the now-former owner of Uriah’s Heating and Cooling, was caught on video stalking Charles Lovett to his home and calling him the N-word because Lovett honked his horn at him while the two were in traffic. Charles Lovett, the Black driver, also filed a police report against the…
(Reuters) — Becky von Zastrow often votes Republican in her affluent central Ohio suburb — but her dissatisfaction with U.S. President Donald Trump has convinced her to back the Democrat in a special-election test for both parties next month. Her change of heart, reinforced by Trump’s handling of last week’s…
Yet again in Ohio, a woman calls the cops on a Black boy for doing an honest job in the neighborhood. As 12-year-old Uriah Sharp walked up to homes in Upper Arlington on Friday to deliver newspapers, a neighbor watched him. It was obvious what he was doing, nevertheless, she…
Black women disproportionately experience violence at home, at school and at work. So it’s disconcerting that in Southeastern Ohio, despite a threat of violence by Nelsonville Police Officer Joshua Braglin against Tiffany Tims, the interim police chief at Hocking College, Braglin managed to keep his job for months until pressure…
UPDATE May 30, 2018 at 10:38 p.m. ET: On Wednesday night the Nelsonville City Council unanimously voted to fire police officer Joshua Braglin. The vote came during a city council meeting attended by numerous protesters. ORIGINAL STORY A white male police officer from Southeastern Ohio made racist and threatening Facebook…
Columbus Police Officer Zachary Rosen was fired over the summer after video footage showed him stomping on a suspect. Now he haws been reinstated. At the time of the incident Rosen approached the scene where DeMarco Anderson was already restrained and handcuffed on the ground. Anderson, the suspect in a…
An Ohio middle school teacher will not be suspended or terminated after telling her 13-year-old Black student he would face a lynch mob if he didn’t do his work. Renee Thole, a white social studies teacher at Mason Middle School, told the young boy, Nathan, in December, “When you come…
After promising to be “a president for all Americans” and calling for unity, President-elect Donald Trump returned to his usual theatrics at a rally in Ohio on Thursday night. His supporters chanted “Build the wall” and “Lock her up,” he attacked “the very dishonest media,” he mocked protesters and he…
