Articles About race relations

• Seeking courage at MLK event

  By Jeff SimonsJanuary 18, 2018

  

  This year marks the 50th anniversary of the civil rights leader’s death. And to celebrate his legacy, the 2018 Yellow Springs Martin Luther King Jr. Day program has adopted a timely theme: “Courage to Take a Stand.”

• 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.”

• Council on policing— Guidelines stress anti-racism

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 20, 2017

  

  At Village Council’s July 3 meeting, Council members unanimously approved adopting new guidelines for policing that take a proactively inclusive and anti-racist stance.

• Focus on racial incidents at Yellow Springs schools

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 6, 2017

  

  Yellow Springs school district leaders were urged to hire more people of color and provide more racial sensitivity training for school staff and students at a meeting Monday, June 26, at First Baptist Church.

• Racial factors in Crawford’s shooting

  By Audrey HackettAugust 11, 2016

  

  Fourth article in this series: Beginning in the early 2000s, Joshua Correll, a social psychology researcher now at the University of Colorado, began a series of studies examining the effect of race on shoot/don’t shoot decisions.

• Revisiting Crawford, two years on

  By Audrey HackettJune 30, 2016

  

  First article in this series: The shooting of John Crawford and other young African-American men by police raised urgent questions about use of force, police relations with African-American communities and the role of race and racism in the justice system.

• Grandson’s heart-breaking question inspires a new book

  By Carol SimmonsJune 16, 2016

  

  What began as a letter written to her 4-year-old grandson while he napped has become a 142-page, 12-chapter, hard-cover book earning praise from prestigious review boards and lay readers alike for its author, villager Julia Davis.

• Black Lives Matter marks a year — Message of justice carries on

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanAugust 20, 2015

  

  On Aug. 5, 2015, over 200 people gathered in the parking lot of the Beavercreek Walmart to commemorate the life and mourn the death of John Crawford III.

• Antioch College historian eyes race, community

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 6, 2015

  

  But Kevin McGruder, assistant professor of history at Antioch College, tells the story of early white Harlem residents who appeared to hold diverse views of their African-American neighbors. And he believes that Harlem was originally a place of aspiration for the blacks who moved there.

• Mixed Mamas explore identity

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 9, 2015

  

  People of mixed racial heritage face different challenges than most when figuring out their identify, but all of us are negotiating our identity all of the time.