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The Oberlin Heritage Center will hold its annual meeting at 6 p.m., April 10, at the Hotel at Oberlin, 10 E. College St. The night will feature keynote speaker Christina Hartlieb, who is the executive director of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati. Hartlieb, who will present the program, “Why did the Lane Rebels […]

The Ford returned Wednesday to Naval Station Norfolk following a thrice-extended near-nine month deployment. The crew spent 239 days underway, spending Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year's Eve — holidays they expected to spend at home with loved ones — at sea.

Election 2023: 11 vie for seven Oberlin City Council‐at‐Large seats

Decades of redlining, city neglect, and devastating ordinances have taken a toll on the historic freedman's town. But the fight to preserve it, and its stories, continues.

On Monday, City Council held a work session for an affordable housing proposal created by the affordable housing subcommittee in the social equity committee and Revitalization Strategies Group, Inc. City Council and affordable housing subgroup members Ray English, Eboni Johnson, and Elizabeth Meadows led the work session. The public was invited to ask questions and...

Preschoolers, special ed students return to classrooms in Chicago Amilcar Marquez kisses his daughter, Isabella, at Disney II Magnet Elementary School in Chicagos Old Irving Park neighborhood Thursday on her first day back to school. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times   Updated 2/11/2021 7:15 PM After months of arguing about hand sanitizers, positivity rates, air purifiers and the like, a sense of normalcy returned to the citys public schools Thursday -- at least from the outside -- as parents...

Subscribe This afternoon will be cloudy with a high near 19 degrees and a 60% chance of snow. More snow is in the forecast for tonight as temperatures will dip to a low of around 9 degrees. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a high around 15 degrees. Top story After months of arguing about hand sanitizers, positivity rates, air purifiers and the like, a sense of normalcy returned to the city’s public schools today — at least from the outside — as parents clutching mittened hands led thei...

Pat Nabong/Sun-Times After months of arguing about hand sanitizers, positivity rates, air purifiers and the like, a sense of normalcy returned to the city’s public schools Thursday — at least from the outside — as parents clutching mittened hands led their children up snow-dusted steps and back to the classroom. “I’m kind of scared, but at the same time, he needs to be in school instead of on the computer,” said Eboni Johnson, walking her preschooler, Ashton, to William H. Brown Ele...

Khairi Sharif, a 26-year-old Houston native, is the first Black man to open a drive-in movie theater in Houston. Located in East Downtown Houston, Space City Shows opened on Sept. 4. Sharif got the idea to open the pop-up drive-in after being stuck at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. He researched the ins and outs of opening a drive-in from real estate to movie licensing. Sharif told Atlanta Black says he invested roughly $30,000 to open the pop-up. “The first week, I didn’t expect it...