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Kevin McGruder, professor at Antioch College, and Steve Schwerner, the brother of Mickey Schwerner (an activist murdered by white supremacists) talk about Freedom Summer on its sixtieth anniversary.
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In this episode, we meet a visionary leader from the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma working to reconnect her community with their homelands.
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In our upcoming series, we will provide a perspective on the history of the region we now call Ohio that very few of us learned in school. We'll put the experiences of Miami, Shawnee, Wyandotte, and other American Indian people at the center of a refreshed version of the state’s complicated past and undecided future.
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Dayton Contemporary Dance Company will announce its 2024-25 season schedule on Juneteenth this year.
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This year is the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Army’s first around-the-world flight. Some preparation for that flight happened here in the Miami Valley at McCook Field.
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Community Voices Producers Truth Garrett and Mary Evans have a conversation about the stigmatization of the phrase "second chance" in the incarceration system-impacted community.
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Yellow Springs Hardware in downtown Yellow Springs, Ohio, has been hosting blues concerts, improv comedy and gardening lessons, making it an unexpected gathering place in the village.
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Fabric artist Jo-Ann Morgan's giant quilts are big socio-political statements about immigration, civil rights and more.
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On Saturday, the Kentucky Derby celebrated 150 years of horse racing. But in Dayton, Derby Day is celebrated differently, with wiener dog racing and a fashion show in the Oregon District. WYSO attended the 6th Annual Dachshund Derby.
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For 35 years, Dr. Larry Weinstein was the carillonneur at Carillon Historical Park. This year, he’s passing the batons to Alan Bowman. WYSO spent some time with both musicians inside Dayton’s largest musical instrument.
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Listen to a Central State University alum share her story of celebrating graduation despite the 1974 tornado tearing through Xenia and Wilberforce just weeks prior. She recalled proudly marching in graduation, and how her father was an architect who designed some of the rebuilt structures.
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Richard Austin, formerly general counsel for Central State University, shared his story as part of a collection of oral histories being gathered about the 1974 tornado.