Articles About diversity :: Page 2

• Nonstop fun at Nonstop fundraiser

  By Aaron ZaremskyDecember 19, 2010

  

  The Nonstop Institution hosted a fundraising gala last night with a diverse lineup of acts.

• Qigong in Yellow Springs

  By Aaron ZaremskyOctober 23, 2010

  

  The Senior Center hosts regular sessions of Qigong, the Chinese art of energy manipulation.

• I’ve got the Blues

  By Aaron ZaremskySeptember 12, 2010

  

  The AACW Blues Fest went off without a hitch last weekend at the Antioch Amphitheater.

• And they’re off!

  By Aaron ZaremskyAugust 1, 2010

  

  Over a hundred women and girls participated in the second annual Simply Women’s 5k Run/Walk last Saturday morning.

• All You Need is Love

  By Aaron ZaremskyJuly 11, 2010

  

  Yellow Springers participated in Sufi dancing before the YSKP show this Saturday.

• Juneteenth a Scrumptious Affair

  By Aaron ZaremskyJune 20, 2010

  

  Juneteenth celebrations included a pie contest and Motown dancing last Friday night at the Bryan Center.

• Assessing the value of diversity

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 25, 2010

  

  For Jewell Graham, the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s were exhilarating times to live in the village. Having come to Yellow Springs as a young African-American woman with her new husband, Paul, who after graduating from Antioch had been offered a job at Vernay Laboratories, Graham was impressed with the quality of relationships between blacks and whites. Many businesses were integrated in a way unusual for the time, and a passion for the civil rights movement further brought people together. There was considerable socializing between blacks and whites in her world, as well as a sense of shared purpose.

• Diversity gap creates social divide

  By Lauren HeatonFebruary 11, 2010

  

  When Isabel Newman graduated from Bryan High School in 1943, Antioch Bookplate President Ernest Morgan hired her to work for the company. Soon after, he sent her to a six-week course at the Mergenthaler linotype school in New York, and upon her return, she worked for the company for over 40 years, retiring as a manager. At that company, whose president actively promoted racial integration, she recalled that typically a fourth of the employees were minorities. The support for a racially diverse staff appeared to be the same at Vernay Laboratories, where two of Newman’s sisters worked, Yellow Springs Instruments and Antioch College, the place that bred all three companies and their socially minded leaders.

• Jobs, land use are forum topics

  By Web AdminOctober 22, 2009

  The need for collaboration between the Village and various entities, including Miami Township and Antioch College, emerged as a theme during last Sunday’s candidate forum held at the First Presbyterian Church. And while Village Council candidates agreed on the need for job growth, they differed as to how to best pursue that goal.

• Diversity deemed critical for visioning

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 23, 2009

  At their July 20 meeting, members of Village Council approved the names of visioning steering committee members, but also urged organizers to try harder to find participants from the African-American community.