Cincinnati organizations partner to fight hate

6 years ago
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A pair of racist incidents in southern Ohio basketball -- Kings students donning jerseys with anti-black racial slurs in January and Elder's student cheering section using similar slurs to taunt a rival team -- prompted an avalanche of public castigation and an equally frantic deluge of apologies from the schools earlier this year.  They also convinced Jackie Congedo, a member of the Jewish Community Relations Council, that she needed to partner with others to effect real change in Greater Cincinnati.

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