Articles About civil rights

• World House Choir honors the legacy of civil rights fireband Pauli Murray

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 7, 2025

  

  This weekend, the 10-movement dramatic cantata, “Sincerely Yours, Pauli Murray,” will be performed in Yellow Springs Friday and Sunday, Nov. 7 and 9, and in Cincinnati on Nov. 8.

• ‘Loving is Key’ | Antioch College celebrates Bayard Rustin, Coretta Scott King

  By YS News StaffApril 24, 2025

  

  Set in a rural midwestern community in the aftermath of the vandalism of a public mural, “Loving is the Key” reenacts excerpts from the speech that Bayard Rustin delivered at Antioch College on April 6, 1965, and Coretta Scott King’s 1982 Antioch College commencement speech.

• 2022 Yellow Springs MLK Jr. march and presentations

  By Matt MindeJanuary 18, 2022

  

  The annual Martin Luther King Jr. march was held Monday, Jan. 17.

• 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.

• Juneteenth in Yellow Springs — A tribute to emancipation

  By Lauren ShowsJune 20, 2019

  

  The first of the two Juneteenth celebrations will be held Saturday, June 15, 2–5 p.m., at Mills Park Hotel. The celebration is coordinated by villager Carmen Lee through her event planning business, Yokel.

• 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.

• Cold march, warm hearts

  By Matt MindeJanuary 18, 2018

  

  On Monday, Jan. 15, several hundred villagers honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and legacy, Yellow Springs-style.

• MLK Jr. Day events in YS — ‘The Courage to Take a Stand’

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 12, 2018

  

  Villagers are invited to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with events over the long weekend under the theme “The Courage to Take a Stand.”

• Yellow Springs police officer Naomi Penrod charges discrimination

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 24, 2016

  

  Yellow Springs Police Sergeant Naomi Penrod has filed a charge of employment discrimination against the Village of Yellow Springs.

• Old symbols fly, burn on 4th of July

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 16, 2015

  

  As American flags waved all around town on Saturday, July 4, one Confederate flag, a former symbol of the American South, burned as a reminder of the lack of freedom many black citizens have suffered since the Civil War and before.