Embarking on her first national book tour for the critically acclaimed release Copper Sun, former-award-winning-teacher-turned-award-winning-author Sharon M. Draper discusses the variety of stunne  

Pensively sitting in a nondescript county office building on a recently redeveloped corner in Corryville, Charlene Walker -- mother of Kenneth Lackey, Cincinnati homicide victim No. 51 in 2004 --  

If you're lucky enough, once in a lifetime you get to play the hero, sweep in and rescue the distressed damsel whose foot fits the glass slipper, and live happily ever after. Playing the relucta  

Problems in the Hamilton County Coroner's office are nothing less than shocking, according to an expert witness in a lawsuit in federal court. Dr. Cyril Wecht, the coroner in Allegheny County, P  

Complexities of race, class, presentation and accuracy not only describe Cincinnati's new icon, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, but the skepticism about it as well. Local and n  

Since its inception, the mission of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center has been to highlight the city's history of interracial cooperation and foster these kinds of relationships in  

Articulating and applying feminist theory to real-life situations in a slightly crazy but very cool and sexy sort of way isn't for the faint of heart or mind. The founders of The Rag, a year-old   

Kadiatou Diallo's son is famous in a way no mother would want. In 1999 the unarmed West African man was gunned down in a barrage of gunfire by four New York City police officers. The story of th  

Despite an early morning fire that raged through his Tuskegee, Ala. office three days earlier, Fred Gray Sr., renowned civil rights attorney, addressed an audience of 250 at the YWCA Heart-to-Hea  

Upon graduation from law school in 1954, Fred Gray Sr., the renowned civil rights attorney for Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and many other leaders of the Civil Rights Era, returned to Mont