Articles About Anti-racism

• 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.

• Council recommits to anti-racism

  By Megan BachmanAugust 31, 2020

  

  At their Aug. 17 virtual meeting, Village Council members agreed to move forward to meet the demands of local anti-racist rally organizers and take other steps to address racism locally after tensions escalated between the two groups in recent weeks.

• Village Council— Anti-racist steps demanded

  By Megan BachmanJuly 29, 2020

  

  Organizers of recent weekly anti-racism rallies downtown aired criticism at Council’s July 20 virtual meeting of Village efforts to address racism.

• ‘Empower Black Women’ — Hear speeches from weekend rally

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 15, 2020

  

  On Saturday, July 11, villagers met for the seventh weekend in an ongoing demonstration against racism and police brutality. Listen to speakers from the demonstration, which bore the theme “Empower Black Women.”

• Racism in village often covert

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 3, 2020

  

  Facing Race: This is first in a series on the impacts of racism in Yellow Springs and local anti-racist efforts and activities.

• Council declares racism ‘public health crisis’

  By Megan BachmanJuly 1, 2020

  

  At its June 15 regular meeting, Village Council declared racism a public health crisis and committed to taking “meaningful action” to respond to the “death, trauma and injury caused by institutional racism.”

• The social utopia of the ‘Mystic Knights’

  By Guest ContributorApril 25, 2019

  

  It was during the late 1970s at an idyllic riverfront property in Clifton that a group of Yellow Springers came to form a legendary, diverse social club.

• 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.

• Celebrate 10 years of The 365 Project

  By Megan BachmanMarch 15, 2018

  

  The 365 Project celebrates 10 years of engaging the community on issues of race and preserving local black history with an event on Sunday.