Articles About Coretta Scott King Center

• ‘Loving is Key’ | Antioch College celebrates Bayard Rustin, Coretta Scott King

  By YS News StaffApril 24, 2025

  

  Set in a rural midwestern community in the aftermath of the vandalism of a public mural, “Loving is the Key” reenacts excerpts from the speech that Bayard Rustin delivered at Antioch College on April 6, 1965, and Coretta Scott King’s 1982 Antioch College commencement speech.

• Summit at Antioch College to envision ‘Another World’

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 11, 2025

  

  An upcoming four-day summit hosted by Antioch College’s Coretta Scott King Center  for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom aims to inspire students, artists, researchers, activists, organizers, educators and scholars not only to envision, but also to help create — as author Toni Morrison once told a group of collegiate graduates — “the world as it ought to be.”

• Beating the heat

  By Reilly DixonAugust 26, 2024

  

  On a sweltering Tuesday afternoon, July 30, a small group gathered in the Coretta Scott King Center at Antioch College to learn traditional African drumming techniques and rhythms with Gyamfi Gyamerah.

• Gandhi, King families speak on peace, social justice

  By YS News StaffFebruary 16, 2024

  

  The Coretta Scott King Center, in collaboration with the Dayton International Peace Museum, orchestrated a profound dialogue Sunday, Jan. 28.

• 2024 MLK march canceled; program, readings will proceed

  By Matt MindeJanuary 14, 2024

  

  The 2024 Yellow Springs MLK Jr. march through town has been canceled because of extreme temperatures. The MLK Day program will proceed as scheduled, at 11 a.m., in the John Bryan Community Center gym.

• ‘Getting to the Root’

  By Cheryl DurgansMay 15, 2023

  

  On Wednesday and Thursday, April 26 and 27, the Coretta Scott King Center hosted “Getting to the Root,” a two-day workshop centered on strengthening antiracism efforts.

• ‘Getting to the Root’ returns to the Coretta Scott King Center

  By Cheryl DurgansMarch 28, 2023

  

  The two-day “Getting to the Root” workshop will be held April 26 and 27, 9 a.m.–4 p.m., at the Coretta Scott King Center on the Antioch College campus.

• Anchoring the Coretta Scott King Center in Black history

  By Cheryl DurgansFebruary 9, 2023

  

  This month, the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom, or CSKC, will host programming in honor of Black History Month, including the A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Memorial Lecture on Feb. 24, 6–8:30 p.m.

• H.U.M.A.N. library opens at Antioch College

  By Cheryl DurgansSeptember 26, 2022

  

  A newly minted library honors H.U.M.A.N.’s founders, Antioch professors William D. Chappelle and James N. Dunn and community activist Glynna Garrett.

• Coretta Scott King luncheon lifts up

  By Carol SimmonsMay 26, 2022

  

  Community organizing, healing and relationships were among the themes highlighted during the sixth annual Legacy Luncheon ceremony presented by the Coretta Scott King Center on Friday, April 29, at the Wellness Center on the Antioch College campus.