Wilberforce News

What are you dressing up as for Halloween? TREVOR LOWE TREVOR LOWE, Xenia: Optimus Prime.

"I've always said I wanted to try something different," said Karla Garrett Harshaw.

After organizers announced in March that they were discontinuing the effort, participating venues and eateries raised concerns.

A serigraph by Jacob Lawrence depicting John Brown communicating his plans to use force to fight slavery Shaving items said to have been used by John Brown "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave," but fascination with the violent anti-slavery crusader goes marching on.

Wright State University's total enrollment has reached a milestone of more than 18,000 students, according to school officials.

Columbus: Latinos: Exploring our African Roots opens on Sept. 10 through Oct. 18, 2009, in conjunction with the current featured exhibition, Soul! Art from the National Afro American Museum and Cultural Center .

Now-a-days there are a lot of criminal activities taking place at universities and school campuses.

Surrounding them, from left, were Jen Rodgers, director general of Zechariah House, and volunteers Peggy Adams, Anna Grady and Alicia Santos.

Surrounding them, from left, were Jen Rodgers, director general of Zechariah House, and volunteers Peggy Adams, Anna Grady and Alicia Santos.

A recent graduate of an area university will appear on MTV's "Making His Band" when it premieres Monday, July 27.

Five people, including three children, were taken to area hospitals after two cars collided at the intersection of Wilberforce-Clifton and Harbison roads, about 4:45 p.m. Thursday, June 9. One vehicle burst into flames and exploded moments after the driver was taken out, a witness said.

Authorities in Greene County responded to a serious crash involving a car and an SUV.

State troopers responded to a two-car collision in which one of the vehicles burst into flames and five people were seriously injured late Thursday afternoon, July 9. CareFlight was called to the secne of the accident, which occurred at the intersection of Wilberforce-Clifton and Jones roads, just outside of the Cedarville.

Academics and politicians have been saying it for decades now - that the GI Bill of Rights, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt 65 years ago this month, is perhaps the most important, the most far-reaching piece of legislation the U.S. Congress ever approved.

Cincinnati State Technical and Community College will partner with Central State University to transfer students in certain majors seamlessly from the two-year to the four-year school.

Willis "Bing" Davis, "Ghetto Voice" "Soul!" When: Through Feb. 28 Web: ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/soul There can be a positive side effect to economic hard times for some cultural institutions.

The African American experience is explored through art during Soul! Art from the National Afro-American Museum now on view at the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus, Ohio.

IF YOUR view of young adult African-Americans is limited to what much of the media present, you probably wag your head.

Artist James Allen was serving a life sentence in an Indiana state prison when he discovered his artistic talent.

Segregation laws prevented a young Richmond Barthe from attending art school in the South.