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Racial Equity Matters workshop helped her articulate the sting of racism

The experience helped a woman of color frame and communicate things she had been seeing and feeling for a long time.

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Cincinnati is one of the best cities for women in tech

Women can seize IT opportunities in Ohio.

Feature Story The Greenway is a 1.5 mile-long watercourse and walking path situated between the two main drags in South Fairmount.

A green solution to water pollution could also mark the beginning of rebirth for a neighborhood

The Greenway, a 1.5 mile-long watercourse and walking path situated between the two main drags in South Fairmount, is a feat of green engineering that goes a long way toward fixing one of the region’s biggest environmental challenges.


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“A Celebration of the Harlem Renaissance”: acknowledging the legacy of the Black cultural revival

In addition to a visual art exhibit, viewers can expect jazz performances, a poetry reading, and performance by Revolution Dance Theatre.


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Greater Cincinnati’s YWCA launches its second Racial Equality and Social Justice Challenge

This year’s themes are Reparations, Racism in Sports, Gender-Based Violence, and Environmental Racism.


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'The time is now to figure this out.' Lighthouse CEO was moved to action by equity workshops

“It starts with me,” says Paul Haffner. “It’s not possible anymore to wish the problem away.”

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Amtrak expansion here would depend on Ohio taking action

The goal is to pursue passenger rail expansion on five routes, using 100% federal funds.

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Local by design: Meet the Hamilton County entrepreneur behind a line of custom T-shirts

The woman-owned business is rooted in the idea of celebrating local communities, one design at a time.


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Reconstruction of trailblazing American painting exhibition to debut at Cincinnati Art Museum

American Painting: The Eighties Revisited will be on view from March 12–July 11.

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The Queen City attracts attention for climate action

Our city is paving the way for equitable, sustainable planning.


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Giraffes like pedicures

The staff at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden were able to teach them how to stand still for hoof trims after spending weeks working on several small behaviors.


Feature Story Dr. Julia Carter founded Wood Hudson Cancer Research Laboratory 40 years ago.

Independent lab in the heart of Newport has been fighting cancer for 40 years

Wood Hudson Cancer Research Laboratory has been probing the root causes of the most deadly forms of the disease, as well as educating the next generation.


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Park benches, solar lampposts, a trash can for pizza boxes: Small neighborhood projects win funding

The grants were part of a round of funding totaling nearly $27,000 made to seven neighborhood groups as part of Covington’s Neighborhood Grant Program.

 

 


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They work to bring neighborhoods back, a step at a time

A small group of urbanists has been mapping, repairing, and cleaning alleys and the steps that traverse the city's hilly neighborhoods since 2012.


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Boujee Bar Skincare: Meet the woman-owned company taking soap to the next level

How a Cincinnati-based entrepreneur is marrying clean beauty with self-care.

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Racial Equity Matters: GCF’s workshops offer eye-opening lessons

Sunny Reelhorn Parr participated in a Groundwater training that changed the way she approached her career and her personal conversations with neighbors.


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Everything But The House launches HGTV show

People across the country turn to the Cincinnati-based business to declutter and sell items in their family’s homes.


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A Black Cincinnatian’s artwork hangs in the White House

More than 150 years after Robert S. Duncanson painted Landscape with Rainbow, the Bidens selected it as a symbol of hope.


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The Terrace Plaza Hotel is one of the most endangered places in America

Paul Muller of the Cincinnati Preservation Association is hoping the city will adopt a preservation-based redevelopment strategy to save the historic building.


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Northside’s Bonomini Bakery has some of the best donuts in the country

Food & Wine ranked fried dough around the U.S. and one Cincinnati spot made the list.