2021 Yellow Springs News Merchandise
Sep
22
2021

Articles About black lives matter

  • Reparations fund to address past injustice

    By Lauren ShowsJuly 9, 2021

    From left, Yellow Springs residents John and Maria Booth and Liz Porter were among the participants in Black Lives Matter protests at the Beavercreek Walmart in December 2014, following the police shooting death of John Crawford III in August. (News Archive photo by Diane Chiddister)

    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?

  • Juneteenth in Yellow Springs

    By Reilly DixonJune 25, 2021

    Harmonica master and consummate performer Frédéric Yonnet performed his possible final “summer camp” show of the year at Rose & Sal Mercantile on Dayton Street last Saturday, June 12, with his “Band With No Name” and several guest musicians.

  • ‘Fight hate with love’

    By YS News StaffMarch 12, 2021

    Last weekend, local artist Pierre Nagley pasted a drawing of Emmitt Till on top of a Kieth’s Alley mural he painted last year of George Floyd that had been vandalized with white paint earlier in the week.

  • MLK Day 2021 peacemaker award — Moyenda, a warrior peacemaker

    By Cheryl DurgansFebruary 3, 2021

    At the virtual MLK Day event held on Monday, Jan. 18, via Zoom, Bomani Moyenda, a longtime local activist, was finally given the Peacemaker Award by the Yellow Springs Martin Luther King Day Planning Committee.

  • A path to progress on race?

    By Audrey HackettNovember 9, 2020

    This is fourth in a series on the impacts of racism in Yellow Springs and local anti-racist efforts and approaches.

  • Leading while Black in Yellow Springs

    By Audrey HackettAugust 5, 2020

    In this week’s article, the third in the News’ current series, “Facing Race,” we take a closer look at the interplay of race and representation in the village, based on interviews with six Black villagers in elected and other leadership roles locally.

  • 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.”

  • Police reform at the YSPD— What’s done, what’s next?

    By Megan BachmanJune 24, 2020

    At a special meeting tonight called to hear the final report of an independent investigation into the New Year's Eve Ball Drop tensions between villagers and police, shown above, Investigator David Williamson said the investigation is not yet finished. (Submitted photo by Margaret Kinner Fisher)

    Amid national calls for policing reform following the most recent wave of killings of Black people by police officers, villagers are once again raising their voices for change in the Yellow Springs Police Department.

  • 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.