Articles About black lives matter

• 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.

• 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.”