civil rights

Members of the West Dayton Clergy Community Coalition gathered with a handful of neighborhood residents outside the former Good Samaritan Hospital complex…

Investigators from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services civil rights division are expected to visit Dayton soon. Health advocates say they’ll…

A group of Ohio legislators are trying to add sexual orientation and gender identity or expression into the state’s anti-discrimination law. The bill...

A West Dayton community group is expanding its federal civil rights complaint against Premier Health related to the company's recent closure of Good…

Before the freedom riders and Martin Luther King Jr., there was Bayard Rustin, a gay African American Quaker and civil rights activist. Rustin taught King…

June 19, 1865 marks the day slavery was abolished in the United States. One hundred fifty-three years later, people across the country continue to…

Education is obviously the main focus of any educational institution's mission, and Wilmington College's upcoming speaker series will not only educate but…

In southwest Ohio, about a mile from the Indiana state line, a long-forgotten town with a special place in African American history is struggling to be…

Many in the Dayton area have been paying tribute to longtime city commissioner Dean Lovelace. Lovelace died Sunday, more than a year after vacating the…

On Thursday, November 12th, four honorees will be celebrated for their work to protect the rights of low-income and disadvantaged people living in the…

A hundred and fifty years ago this week, Reverend Henry Highland Garnet became the first Black man to present from the speaker’s platform in the U.S.…

Almost 50 years ago, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Yellow Springs and Antioch College to address the graduates at his wife Coretta’s…