White book cover with black words White Trash the untold history of class
05 August 2017

Not since President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty have we seen so much attention paid to poor white people. The iconic Life magazine photo of Johnson sitting on the front porch of a poor white Appalachian family...

Black background with white words promoting film festival
04 August 2017

Friday, August 4-Sunday, August 6, starts 7pm Friday night
Black representation is important to the Columbus artistic scene and filmmaking community, however, there is a large gap in representation of Black artists in the theater...

Pictures of a bag of health sugar and certified organic food against a bright colorful tie-dyed background
04 August 2017

What to buy

Buy Fair Trade Items

The term “Fair Trade” may conjure up a variety of images in the minds of consumers today: “hipsters” sipping on special coffee, higher priced sections of...

Time magazine cover with heavy white haired man holding American flag and words Yanks to the rescue
03 August 2017

Why would Russia meddle in a U.S. presidential election? They were just returning the favor.

This Time magazine cover from July 15, 1996 documents it all. The United States bragged about helping rig the Russian presidential...

Bird's eye view of the serpent mound, a green snaky looking thing on the ground, surrounded by trees
03 August 2017

Built by native peoples roughly 2,000 years ago, the Ohio Earthworks – such as Serpent Mound and the Newark Octagon – are on the threshold ofachieving global recognition by the United Nations.

An Ohio Earthworks application for...

Biblical-looking men with their arms raised to heaven around a big gold flashy light
03 August 2017

Editor's note: In March of 2017, researchers from the British Museum excavating an archeological site in Greece made one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century. Sealed in a clay jar was a copy of the lost third epistle...

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