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Painesville organization Becoming a Better Me will hold an open house on Sept. 23 as it prepares to launch an after-school program for local students.

Applications are open for the inaugural program, which will accept seven students of color in grades 7-12.

Here's your list of events honoring Martin Luther King Jr. in Columbus and the surrounding area.

Here's your list of events honoring Martin Luther King Jr. in Columbus and the surrounding area.

Violinists Maalik Glover and Mwakudua waNgure share thoughts on the barriers faced by musicians of color.

Recognizing her support of the arts, Columbus has renamed its Downtown Arts Center after Priscilla Tyson, a former long-serving member of City Council

Asa Simpson-Cole, 18, was awarded a four-year, full-tuition scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

This years event will take place Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. at the Maroon Arts Group Box Park, 925 Mount Vernon Ave.

"I am everything...the rock star, the fighter, the superhero," says Priest, who looks forward to the roar of WWE RAW fans at Nationwide Arena Feb. 28.

Ben Willis new book of photos, “The Home We Know,” shows Columbus in a way only someone who knows the the city and its people intimately could do.