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Hear Cincinnati: Its soul has moved to Mount Healthy, but this church's ghost remains in the West End

'You can't stay in the past and expect to move forward in the future'
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"You can't stay in the past and expect to move forward in the future.”

That’s how a lifelong member of Revelation Missionary Baptist Church described the church’s decision to use gentrification to fuel a move from the West End to Mouth Healthy. WCPO gentrification reporter Monique John joins the Hear Cincinnati podcast to tell the full story.

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Revelation Church was seen as a safe haven for African Americans in Cincinnati and beyond.

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