Cole Behrens

1 week ago | dispatch.com | Cole Behrens |Bailey Gallion |Nathaniel Shuda

Thousands packed downtown Columbus and the Short North with the colors of the rainbow June 14 for the 2025 Stonewall Columbus Pride Festival and March. Marchers and demonstrators alike decked themselves out in rainbow colors and waved Pride flags and banners during the parade, which lasted over two hours and seemed to go on for miles, from its starting point by the Ohio Statehouse to Goodale Park.

2 weeks ago | dispatch.com | Bailey Gallion |Cole Behrens |Nathaniel Shuda |Eleanor Kennedy

The streets of Columbus will be a bit more colorful June 14 as the massive Stonewall Columbus Pride Festival and March takes over downtown and the Short North. Meanwhile, protesters are holding No Kings rallies across the region, state and nation as President Donald Trump plans a military parade. Indivisible Central Ohio held its downtown Columbus No Kings event June 13, so as to not conflict with the Pride celebration, but group members will march in Saturday's parade.

2 weeks ago | dispatch.com | Cole Behrens

U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty was among four Democratic representatives who did not participate in a narrow vote on the fate of funding for NPR and PBS as well as foreign aid already approved by Congress. Beatty, who represents Columbus and surrounding areas in the U.S. House, was not present for the June 11 vote, which passed 214-212. Four Republicans — including Dayton-area Rep. Michael Turner — joined with all present Democrats in voting against the measure.

2 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Cole Behrens

While cities across the country plan to hold "No Kings" protests on June 14 — there won't be a dedicated event in downtown Columbus that day. That's because Indivisible, the group behind the protests scheduled around the country on June 14, plan instead to participate in the 2025 Stonewall Columbus Pride March. According to Stonewall and Indivisible organizers, the group will be a participant in the march, which begins June 14, starting at 10:30 a.m along High Street.

3 weeks ago | dispatch.com | Cole Behrens

Columbus City Schools has dissolved its equity office and moved employees into another department, the district said. According to CCS Chief of Staff Mike De Fabbo, employees who were part of the district's equity department have been combined with the district's "Whole Child Supports" department, "to align the work" with the board's whole child support guardrail.