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Black History

Author to speak at Miami Hamilton on Black life in Appalachian coal towns

Miami University Regionals Appalachian Studies presents award-winning historian William H. “Bill” Turner at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, in the Harry T. Wilks Conference Center. Turner’s work mines a wealth of previously untold stories to delve into the rich tapestry of Black Appalachia. CONTRIBUTED

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Set in the year 2119: Cincinnati Opera to showcase Black experience through Afrofuturism

Writer, performance poet, oral historian, and activist Tifara Brown is the librettist of "Lalovavi," which will debut at the Cincinnati Opera in June 2025. CONTRIBUTED

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HISTORY COLUMN: Black leaders who made an impact in Hamilton

Bob Harris and Katherine Rumph are two black leaders in Hamilton's history who made an impact in the community. FILE

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Hamilton grad, Middletown native are part of Miami’s Black History Month celebration

Middletown native Stephen Hightower, president and CEO of Hightowers Petroleum Co., will reflect on leveraging life’s opportunities to grow in business and life at noon Feb. 29 in the Miriam G. Knoll Community Center, Miami University Middletown. CONTRIBUTED

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Fairfield students promote Black History Month education through artwork

$Students at a Fairfield school wanted to make a strong visual statement in their support of the importance of Black History month and their work now shows throughout their school. Fairfield Creekside Middle School students, led by the school’s Student Diversity Alliance, have decorated the school’s main lobby, halls and classroom spaces with a wide variety of Black History month and diversity appreciation-themed art created by themselves and classmates. (Provided Photo\Journal-News)$

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Local youth shaping future of Black history are ‘actively engaged’

Booker T. Washington Community Center Director Ebony Brock said she's "very optimistic" about the future of Black history. Pictured is Brock in the lobby of the BTW Center on South Front Street on Feb. 8, 2023. MICHAEL D. PITMAN/STAFF

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Hamilton Council honors Black community members making a difference

Pictured in this screen capture from TVHamilton, are Kierra Wilson (center left) and Royal Lewis (center right), as they read a proclamation proclaiming February 2023 as Black History Month in the city of Hamilton. To the right of Royal is Booker T Washington Center Director Ebony Brock and Vice Mayor Michael Right. To the left of Kierra is Mayor Pat Moeller. PROVIDED BY TVHamilton

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Local Black History Month events set throughout region

The City of Oxford has a self-guided Black History tour guide available to take people around the town and on the Miami University campus. CONTRIBUTED

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Local NAACP president: ‘Our work is never done’

Middletown NAACP President Celeste Didlick-Davis spoke two years during a Monroe Board of Education meeting. She was concerned by the actions of two white students who reenacted the murder of George Floyd in a social media video. She told the board “we are concerned” beyond the single video incident and also “about some other implicit bias and systemic racism (and) incidents which have been brought to our attention over several years.” NICK GRAHAM / STAFF

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McCrabb: Carter says moving from Troy to Middletown ‘changed my life’

Butch Carter, a 1976 Middletown High School graduate, is the only basketball player in Ohio to be named Player of the Year and Coach of the Year. FILE PHOTO

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Credit: Gary Stelzer/Middletown Journal