Articles About black lives matter

• 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. Day | ‘The fierce urgency of now’

  By Cheryl DurgansJanuary 23, 2023

  

  Around 200 villagers assembled on Jan. 16, to contemplate Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to action through the “fierce urgency of now,” in observation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

• 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. Day events set in Yellow Springs

  By YS News StaffJanuary 14, 2023

  

  “The Fierce Urgency of Now” is the theme of the 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. Day activities scheduled Monday, Jan. 16, in the village.

• Family of John Crawford III pursues wrongful death charges

  By Reilly DixonDecember 8, 2022

  

  On Wednesday, Nov. 23, a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals revived a wrongful death claim against Walmart by the family of John Crawford III.

• Racial justice, one book at a time

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 11, 2022

  

  A new Little Free Library is on track to be installed at Gaunt Park this month, and the library will be filled with books themed around social and racial justice.

• Community Colloquy | ‘White privilege and everyday life‘

  By Cheryl DurgansJune 15, 2022

  

  At the next event on June 16, psychologists Judith Skillings and Frederick “Pete” Peterson will discuss what white privilege is and isn’t, and clarify what microaggressions mean.

• Students walk out to protest racism

  By Jessica ThomasMay 25, 2022

  

  The walk out was a response to an incident between a white teacher, Karleen Materne, and a Black student after the teacher was overheard saying the N-word.

• Dave Chappelle documentary comes home

  By Carol SimmonsApril 6, 2022

  

  “Dave Chappelle Live in Real Life,” which takes a behind-the-scenes look at the rural outdoor comedy shows presented by the locally based comedian against the catastrophic backdrop of summer 2020, opened at the Little Art Theatre on Thursday, March 24.

• 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?

• 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.