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• Antioch to host 2nd annual talk named in honor of ’49 alum A. Leon Higginbotham

  By YS News StaffJuly 6, 2019

  

  Antioch College alumna LaShann DeArcy Hall, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, will be guest speak at Antioch’s second annual talk named in honor of the late Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Antioch class of 1949, on Friday, July 12, in the Wellness Center’s South Gym, on campus.

• Juneteenth in Yellow Springs — A tribute to emancipation

  By Lauren ShowsJune 20, 2019

  

  The first of the two Juneteenth celebrations will be held Saturday, June 15, 2–5 p.m., at Mills Park Hotel. The celebration is coordinated by villager Carmen Lee through her event planning business, Yokel.

• Play ball, already!— 150-year-old game finally fielded

  By Guest ContributorJune 13, 2019

  

  It took 150 years to make up the game after it was rained out, but on Friday, May 31, the Cincinnati Red Stockings finally prevailed 14–7 over the local Antioch Nine on the Antioch College campus. 

• Antioch announces 2019 commencement speaker

  By YS News StaffJune 2, 2019

  

  Antioch College has announced that Shannon TL Isom, president and CEO of YWCA Dayton, will be the guest speaker at the school’s 2019 commencement ceremony, Saturday, June 22. 

• ‘DOROTHY LANE: a travelogue’— Smith’s artistic alchemy transforms

  By Lauren ShowsMay 23, 2019

  

  Louise Smith, a veteran writer and actor, therapist and Antioch College performance professor, will debut her new piece, “DOROTHY LANE:  a travelogue,” on Friday, May 17, and Saturday, May 18, at 8 p.m. in the Foundry Theater’s Experimental Theater.

• Home, Inc. annual meeting speaker — A history of unfair housing

  By Megan BachmanMay 16, 2019

  

  The average white family in America today has 10 times the wealth of the average black family. To longtime fair housing administrator Larry Pearl, “that’s an amazing figure,” and its cause can be traced to America’s long history of housing discrimination.

• Indigenous Water Protectors panel — A path to “re-indigenizing” Antioch

  By Megan BachmanMay 2, 2019

  

  At a panel at Antioch College for “Earth Week,” indigenous leaders from the Oglala Lakota, Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux, Dakota Wakpala, Northern Cheyenne, Kiowa and Anishinaabe spoke about water protection and other environmental and human rights issues.

• Antioch College’s Earth Week—All are invited to ‘wade in’

  By Carol SimmonsApril 25, 2019

  

  A series of Earth Day-related events on the Antioch College campus next week  invites the entire community to “Wade In” on environmental justice, particularly in relationship to water.

• UPDATE — ‘Sound of Music’ rescheduled again for April 11–14

  By YS News StaffMarch 13, 2019

  

  Performances of “The Sound of Music,” have been once more rescheduled for April 11–14, so that the play’s cast and crew may recuperate more fully from the sweeping flu outbreak.

• Abecedary by Mills Lawn first-graders inaugurates Gaunt award

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 7, 2019

  

  For those who don’t know much about the life of Wheeling Gaunt, the Yellow Springs man who bought his own freedom from slavery and for whom Gaunt Park is named, there’s a handy resource out there — and it was written by Mills Lawn’s 2017–18 first-grade class.