Culture

A former teacher and a current high school student from the Dayton-area answer questions on the topic of race in America.

Meet Uma Mullapudi from India, who is now a meditation teacher. She talks about teaching meditation classes during the pandemic with Libby Ballengee of Dayton.

Across the country and here in Ohio, candidates are making their final push to win voter support. WYSO's Kathryn Mobley spoke with University of Dayton Associate Professor Chris Devine. He specializes in American politics and elections. Devine says he's keeping a close eye on Ohio's U.S. Senate race between Democrat Tim Ryan and Republican J.D. Vance.

Shamera Reid is a renaissance woman. She’s an art teacher, a graphic designer, and a videographer. She’s also a promoter. A promoter to watch. Reid has recently produced events that have gotten notice in the Miami Valley.

Meet Zous and Josie Garcia. They came to the US from the Philippines as students in 1967.

The USA's bid to have Ohio's Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage sites is progressing. The bid is in the formal review process. Recently, a reviewer from the International Council on Monuments and Sites visited Ohio for a tour.

Every Thursday, Black motorcycle clubs gather at the Major League Sports Bar in Dayton. It's called the Midwest Motorcycle Bike Night.

We begin a new season of a series about immigrants in the Miami Valley – it’s called The Bind that Ties. In this iteration we meet Ales Ficko – from Slovenia.

A local veteran and one of the last few World War II veterans immortalized in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers died on September 11, 2022. Jim “Pee-Wee” Martin, who parachuted into Normandy in June 1944, lived in Greene County.

A team of reviewers is expected in Ohio this month to review the United States' proposal to bestow World Heritage status to Ohio's Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks. The bid is moving forward despite disruptions to the process that led to no sites being added to the World Heritage List this summer.

Listen to WYSO's Juliet Fromholt talk to poet, activist, educator, and organizer of Dayton's Juneteenth commemoration, Sierra Leone.

We meet Lorrie Carter, the first employee of The Fringe Coffee House in Hamilton, a place where formerly incarcerated citizens can find work and the help they need to re-enter society.