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Cincinnati’s Eric Kearney takes over as Ohio Senate minority leader

Columbus – The Senate Democratic Caucus has a new leadership team after an official swearing-in cer emony Jan. 31 in the Ohio Senate. Senator Eric H. More...

Cincinnati State is offering help to families of college bound students

Cincinnati State, in partnership with the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati and more than a dozen other organizations, is hosting a variety of events this month designed to help college-bound students apply for financial aid. More...

USDA Official Visits Cincinnati School to Highlight Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act

Under Secretary Kevin Concannon discusses updates to school meals nutritional standards

USDA Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon this week visited the Cincinnati School for Creative and Performing Arts, a K-12 public school, to discuss the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 and the recently annou More...

Chamber Honors 2012 Great Living Cincinnatians

Four Honorees Recognized at Feb. 16 Annual Dinner

The Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber today announced the newest class of Great Living Cincinnatians. The 2012 honorees are Robert H. Castellini, Nick Clooney, Beatrice C. Lampkin, M.D. and James M. Zimmerman. More...

Fundraiser with Michelle Obama at Westin, Feb. 23

First Lady Michelle Obama will be at the Westin Hotel in Downtown Cincinnati at 11:15 a.m. Feb. 23, in an event to raise money for her husband’s re-election campaign. More...

Events

Celebrating a Baseball Legend: The Satchel Paige Story

Legend has it that Satchel Paige could throw a ball so fast that it would disappear into thin air before it ever reached the catcher’s mitt. More...

THE YMCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI HOSTS Y WEEK

All local YMCA branches open their doors to members and the public for a week of free programs & activities More...

Cincinnati Ballet brings two diverse productions to stage

Cincinnati Ballet presents Carmen Feb. 10-11 and 17- 18, and Ballet Toybox on Feb. 18 at the Aronoff Center for the Arts in Cincinnati. More...

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Health

The Center for Closing the Health Gap

City Council receives update on City’s Food Access Task Force

On Jan. 25, The Center for Closing the Health Gap appeared before City of Cincinnati‘ s Rules & Government Operations Committee chaired by Councilmember Wendell Young. More...

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Section B

Federated Colored Women’s Club celebrates League of Youth for Excellence

The Cincinnati Federated Colored Women’s Club of the Southwest District presents Federated League of Youth for Excellence from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, at 1010 Chapel St. in Walnut Hills. More...

Driehaus’ bill would rename Ohio I-75Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Trail

COLUMBUS – Legislation introduced by State Representative Denise Driehaus (D-Cincinnati) received its first hearing Friday in the Transportation, Public Safety, and Homeland Security Committee. More...

Black History fact

The U.S. Capitol and the White House More...

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Hunter closer to victory

Federal Judge Susan J. Dlott, on Sept. More...

Minority firm workers

were victims, not cause, of casino accident
By Dan Yount The Cincinnati Herald

The workers of a local concrete company injured in the collapse of a second floor area that was under construction the morning of Jan. More...

CINCINNATI CASINO SITE PREPARES FOR CLEAN-UP, REBUILD

Developer Rock Ohio Caesars and Construction Manager Messer Construction have received approval from the City of Cincinnati to clear a 60’x60’ section of the Cincinnati casino floor that collapsed while under construction on Friday, Jan. 27. More...

DETERS ANNOUNCES MISDEAMEANOR CHARGE IN CASE OF SRPINGFIELD TOWNSHIP FATHER.

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph T. Deters announced that the Hamilton County Grand Jury returned a 1 count indictment for Unlawful Restraint in the case of Springfield Township father James Tapke (DOB 5-13-70). More...

Soul Train’s Don Cornelius reportedly commits suicide

Don Cornelius, the man who created Soul Train, was reportedly found dead Wednesday morning at his Los Angeles home. Police sources told TMZ.com that Cornelius appears to have taken his own life. More...

Voting rights protection Holder's top priority

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke about voting rights to guests at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Jan. More...

News

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Closes the 15th Annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit With Much Success & Solutions

New York, NY – January 27, 2012 – More than 1,000 attendees from around the globe convened at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers for the 15th Annual Wall Street Economic Summit, “bringing everyone to the table” including bankers, ministers, media More...

Wal-Mart top executive is Black

BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Walmart Stores Inc., the world’s biggest retailer, has named Rosalind Brewer as president and CEO of Sam’s Club – the first woman and the first African-American to hold a CEO position at one of the company’s business units. More...

House Democrats Outline 2012 Priorities to Strengthen Middle Class

COLUMBUS – Ohio House Democrats announced the beginning of their legislative agenda for 2012 to strengthen working and middle class families. More...

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Calendar

HERALD CALENDAR

By Crystal Kendrick

Special Events,and Exhibits Through Feb 11: DEAD ACCOUNTS. More...

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Entertainment

‘Chateau’ sheikness supports Vegas glam

By: Conrad Clowers Cincinnati herald contributor

The dictionary defines a Chateau as a manor or residence of a Lord of nobility. After paying a visit to Vegas’ hottest nightspot, one may come out of ‘the Chateau Nightclub and Gardens’ feeling they are royalty. More...

Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism’s Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist

Book by By Thomas Peele
Book Review by Kam Williams

“When a 19 year-old member of a Black Muslim cult assassinated Chauncey Bailey in 2007—the most shocking killing of a journalist in the U.S. in 30 years—the question was: Why? More...

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

Urban Renewal Documentary Deconstructs Demise of Doomed St. Louis Housing Project
Film Review by Kam Williams

When the Pruitt-Igoe housing project opened to considerable fanfare back in 1956, its 33 high-rise towers were hailed as a proud symbol of the future of American urban renewal. Located on a 57-acre tract on St. More...

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Commentary

Beyond the Rhetoric

The Department of Education is Drunk with Power and Hell Bent
By Harry C. Alford

Karl Marx, the Father of Communism (Marxism), would be blushing if he could come up from Hell and look at what the United States Department of Education is trying to pull off on the American public. More...

Let’s Make 2012 the Year of Manufacturing – January 30, 2011

By Senator Sherrod Brown

You may not know Elizabeth Williams personally, but you know someone like her. Elizabeth Williams is a single mother of two living in North Jackson who has worked at General Motors’ Lordstown plant for 17 years. More...

President Obama’s Blueprint for Keeping College Affordable and Within Reach for All Americans

“Of course, it’s not enough for us to increase student aid… States also need to do their part, by making higher education a higher priority in their budgets. More...

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