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• 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.

• Source documents on local anti-racist action

  By YS News StaffAugust 13, 2020

  

  Read the documents referenced in the August 13 YS News story, “Demonstrators, Village at odds.”