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Caught Up: The Harlem Renaissance Visits the Columbus Stockade

By Frank Etheridge
In Caught Up: Criminal Justice in the Chattahoochee Valley
July 23, 2019
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by Natalia N. Temesgen One summer nearly a century ago, Columbus, Georgia hosted two literary giants for a brief time as they road-tripped through the state. Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, arguably the most significant writers of the Harlem Renaissance, came into Columbus on August 15, 1927 after a week in Tuskegee, Alabama, chugging along in Hurston’s old Nash coupe. Hughes, prolific...

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Sunday Q&A: Paul Yarwaye

By Frank Etheridge
In Sunday Q&A
May 12, 2019
8 Min Read
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Liberian, American, and (after Friday) Master of Public Administration Paul Yarwaye fled the violence of the Civil War that began 40 years ago in his native country of Liberia, the West African nation with deep historical and cultural ties to the Chattahoochee Valley. On May 17, Paul turns 59. On May 18, the United States citizen will graduate from Columbus State University with a Master of...

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