Articles About Greene County Black Lives Matter :: Page 2

• Old symbols fly, burn on 4th of July

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 16, 2015

  

  As American flags waved all around town on Saturday, July 4, one Confederate flag, a former symbol of the American South, burned as a reminder of the lack of freedom many black citizens have suffered since the Civil War and before.

• Local Walmart protesters are sentenced

  By Lauren HeatonApril 30, 2015

  

  Several Yellow Springs residents pleaded no contest in Fairborn Municipal Court last week to charges that they trespassed during two demonstrations in December to protest police aggression, following last summer’s police slaying of John Crawford III.