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• Marching for Black Lives in Yellow Springs

  By YS News StaffJune 11, 2020

  

  About 500 people gathered peacefully yet powerfully in Yellow Springs, Saturday, June 6, to protest racism, police violence and the death of George Floyd, the Minneapolis man killed by police in late May.

• Justice delayed

  By YS News StaffJune 4, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs was one of more than 350 cities and towns across the country to hold a demonstration after the killing of George Floyd by police in Minnesota earlier in the week.

• Sankofa Talk — Fighting ’til the last day

  By Bomani MoyendaApril 27, 2020

  

  Bomani Moyenda speaks about organizing with the activist group Greene County Citizens Against Giant Jail Tax ahead of the 2020 primary.

• Changemakers

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 27, 2018

  

  Nationally known civil rights activist Shaun King headlined a Freedom to Vote Rally on the horseshoe at Antioch College on Sunday, Sept. 23.

• Unsung civil rights activist remembered

  By Guest ContributorSeptember 6, 2018

  

  In an effort to bring civil rights activist Bayard Rustin’s story out of the shadows of history, a series of events, including multiple performances of an oratorio about the activist’s life, will be presented in early September.

• Antioch reunion finds ties with past, future

  By Megan BachmanJuly 19, 2018

  

  Michael Higginbotham, author of “Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America,” is the inaugural speaker in a new seminar series named in honor of famed civil rights advocate and federal judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., a 1949 graduate of Antioch College and also Michael Higginbotham’s father’s first cousin.

• Democracy afoot

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 1, 2018

  

  A crowd of several thousand people converged on Courthouse Square in downtown Dayton last Saturday, Jan. 20, for the second annual Dayton Women’s March.

• Local death penalty opponents decry Ohio’s plans to resume executions

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 21, 2017

  

  State prison officials plan to put convicted killer Ronald Phillips to death Wednesday, July 26, more than three years after a controversial and apparently painful execution led to a moratorium on capital punishment in Ohio.

• Beloved Community aim is inclusion

  By Carol SimmonsApril 13, 2017

  

  A group of Yellow Springs residents have launched The Beloved Community Project, with which they hope to address issues of poverty, hunger, racism, discrimination, inclusion, justice and peace within the village.

• Revisiting Crawford, two years on

  By Audrey HackettJune 30, 2016

  

  First article in this series: The shooting of John Crawford and other young African-American men by police raised urgent questions about use of force, police relations with African-American communities and the role of race and racism in the justice system.