The Ohio State University is partnering with Battelle and Metro Schools to remake an empty school building and give local children a focused STEM education.Pending Ohio State Board of Trustees approval, the university will lease the property and Battelle will provide funding to renovate the historic former Indianola Middle School at 420 E. 19th .
COLUMBUS, Ohio â Rallies in the wake of MaâKhia Bryantâs death continued Saturday as a crowd gathered on the steps of City Hall to decry police brutality and demand change while listening to a host of speakers, including the girl s mother, Paula Bryant.
Bryant described her daughter â a 16-year-old who was shot and killed by a Columbus police officer on April 20 â as an honor roll student who loved the color blue and TikTok hairstyle videos. She had a great sense of humor and was kind to anyone she met, she said.
âShe had a beautiful smile, was loving and had a beautiful personality,â she told those gathered, many of whom wore neon butterfly hair clips in honor of MaâKhia. âShe was a protector and had a motherly spirit about her.â
Flanked by members of Bryant s family, organizer Hana Abdur-Rahim struck a somber tone before those gathered on a sunny April Sunday afternoon. Today we are here to continue to lift up the life of Ma Khia Bryant, she told the crowd. I don t need a video to know she was a child and she deserved to live.
She then introduced a woman named Myra Duke who said she was Bryant s aunt. Speaking to the crowd, Duke thanked them for their dedication to her niece and expressed how sorely the girl s family misses her. It doesn t seem real, said Duke, who later declined to talk to the Dispatch but said she lives out of town. Ma Khia was an angel. This situation didn t have to happen like this; the system failed her.
Some choose to heal during memorial gathering for Ma Khia Bryant at city hall
Ma Khia Bryant s death has ignited the conversation for change amongst many organizations that were at Columbus City Hall Friday. Author: Richard Solomon (WBNS) Updated: 11:26 PM EDT April 23, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio This week people have been expressing their pain behind the death of Ma’Khia Bryant through protests and gatherings.
People did just that at Columbus City Hall Friday night to express another emotion.
“We’re going to uplift and encourage and foster the environment of healing. We’ve been through so much and so many of us are traumatized,” said Kiara Yakita, with the Black Liberation Movement of Central Ohio.