Police

Throughout the month of April, Akron residents will be asked to participate in a series of small public meetings on reforming the city’s police department. These meetings are just one step in a process that started almost a year ago despite a recalcitrant police chief.

After meeting for 10 months, five police reform working groups have submitted 135 recommendations. But the city has only implemented one.

How does it feel to be a Black teenager and have to process the many news stories of unarmed Black men being killed by police? Omari Gaskins was thinking about that as a 16 year old Dayton Youth Radio producer.

Brown hopes to have candidates selected over the next few weeks.

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Department fired Charmaine McGuffey in 2017. In response, she sued, ran for sheriff, and won.

In this installment of the Race Project, a conversation between Fred Bartenstein and Yolanda Simpson, who come from different racial backgrounds and different generations.

Family members are calling for a Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy to be arrested and charged with murder over the killing of Casey Goodson Jr.

Latisha Ellis is a poet, author and recently became co-owner of PoiBois Entertainment, a performing arts group that uses pyrotechnic tools, poetry and music to spread the message of community building. We met Latisha last year during season one of ReEntry Stories, and today, she will share with us the story that made her the winner of the 2020 Dayton Story Slam.

Oakwood joins a growing list of local police departments that want to start wearing body cameras in 2021. Dayton and Kettering also want cameras.

A crowd of more than 50 listened to Desiree Tims and other activists speak about racial injustice on Saturday afternoon at Courthouse Square in downtown Dayton.

Five Rivers Chautauqua has put on an annual Planting of the White Pine Tree Ceremony at different locations throughout the Miami Valley for the last six years.

About a dozen community members, including representatives from the Dayton chapter of the New Black Panther Party and the mother of the arrested man, protested in front of the Safety Building in Downtown Dayton on Wednesday morning.