Articles About tolerance

• BLOG–Enacting MLK’s Beloved Community: Yellow Springs Edition

  By Aaron Maurice SaariSeptember 21, 2017

  

  What began with a community meeting in 2015 is culminating in a six-week journey this fall. Do we have the communal will to be in significant relationships with refugees and Muslims in the greater-Dayton area? 

• Beloved Community aim is inclusion

  By Carol SimmonsApril 13, 2017

  

  A group of Yellow Springs residents have launched The Beloved Community Project, with which they hope to address issues of poverty, hunger, racism, discrimination, inclusion, justice and peace within the village.

• Spike Lee film set to spark conversations

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 25, 2016

  

  This Saturday, villagers have an opportunity to both see the now-iconic film, “Do the Right Thing,” which mirrors today’s racial tensions, and discuss it, at a free screening at 11 a.m. at the Little Art Theatre.

• Pride weekend for all, take two

  By Megan BachmanJune 13, 2013

  

  The largest gay pride event in the world takes place in São Paulo, Brazil, where annually more than 3 million people attend, while the smallest is in an Irish coastal village of 250 people. Yellow Springs Pride Weekend, in its second year, will likely fall somewhere in between.

• Villagers re-decorate for tolerance

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 9, 2012

  

  When Yellow Springers celebrated Pride weekend last month, many honored the occasion by attaching colorful bands of yarn and felt around trees and light poles downtown. So it came as a shock when some villagers noticed this month that someone had been cutting down the art.