Articles About The 365 Project :: Page 2

• John Gudgel creates community through listening, learning

  By Jessica ThomasJuly 12, 2023

  

  A stalwart face in the Yellow Springs district, Gudgel has served as a teacher, coach, principal and guidance counselor in his nearly 40-year career with the district beginning in 1979.

• Yellow Springs Chamber of Commerce ramps up 2023 activities

  By Reilly DixonMarch 6, 2023

  

  Looking ahead to the coming months, the Chamber of Commerce has a jam-packed calendar.

• 2022 Yellow Springs MLK Jr. march and presentations

  By Matt MindeJanuary 18, 2022

  

  The annual Martin Luther King Jr. march was held Monday, Jan. 17.

• 365 Project — Exploring Black ancestry at Glen Forest Cemetery

  By Cheryl DurgansAugust 5, 2021

  

  On Saturday, July 24, people slowly trickled into Glen Forest cemetery, lingering near the cannon commemorating the service of veterans during the Civil War, including Black soldiers who are buried in the cemetery.

• Reparations fund to address past injustice

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 9, 2021

  

  Though the national conversation around reparations began again in earnest last year as Americans took to the streets in protest over the police killings of Black Americans, that conversation continues to stall over a series of sticking points: What should reparations look like? To whom should they be granted? And who should pay them?

• Wrecking Racism— Staying informed, only to mourn

  By YS News StaffFebruary 24, 2021

  

  “One may question the movement in the forward direction, one may try to understand the experience of another, but how will there be a mending of relationships when the disconnect seems so severe?”

• Wrecking Racism— Youth voices needed now

  By YS News StaffFebruary 10, 2021

  

  The purpose of the column will be to provide an avenue for youth of the village to express their ideas, observations, experiences and thoughts about racism, race relations and related topics both locally and nationally.

• Banner up

  By YS News StaffSeptember 16, 2020

  

  On Friday, Sept. 4, a new Black Lives Matter banner was raised across U.S. 68 on the north end of the village.

• Gaunt rising

  By YS News StaffAugust 22, 2019

  

  The grand opening of the Wheeling Gaunt Community Room at the Yellow Springs Arts Council was celebrated by a standing room-only crowd on Saturday, Aug. 17.

• McKee Group program to focus on local black history

  By Megan BachmanFebruary 24, 2019

  

  The James A. McKee Association will host a community conversation on the history of African Americans in Yellow Springs this week.