17 June 2018

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...

Young man with brown hair looking sideways and a big brown horse leaning its head toward his lap
04 June 2018

The physical toll that football takes on athletes has been a source of controversy in recent years. A new and offbeat movie looks at the toll paid by an athlete who practices an even more dangerous sport: rodeo.

The Rider has...

Book cover with photo of John F Kennedy and and MLK both shouting with their fists in the air and the word Kennedy and King
28 May 2018

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the assassinations of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Already a surfeit of books about the two men are in the stores. Indeed, books about the sixties in...

Words Dreamers of Columbus and details of event
07 May 2018

Tuesday, May 8, 5:30-8:30pm
Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 S. Grant
Photojournalist Sahar Fadaian and journalist Leticia Wiggins created Dreamers of Columbus to showcase DACA recipients living in Columbus. Sahar...

Two young white men in military uniforms sitting dejectedly on a bench
02 May 2018

When the mother of an Israeli soldier finds dour-faced people in uniforms at her door, she doesn’t have to be told why they’re there. Her grief is immediate—and immediately quashed. The visitors plunge a hypo into the woman’s leg and...

A blond woman with her hair in a knot of top of her head looking out as an image in a mirror with her mouth open and showing her belly between a red bra top and blue bottom with her hand on her belly
20 April 2018

Just hours before attending a preview screening of I Feel Pretty, I happened to be riding a stationary bike at my gym when the nearest TV showed Amy Schumer plugging the flick on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

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