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• 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.

• ‘Where do we go from here’— Martin Luther King Jr. Day program set

  By YS News StaffJanuary 14, 2021

  

  Yellow Springs will celebrate Martin Luther King Day on Monday, Jan. 18, with the traditional, in-person MLK Day March, but the MLK Day program following the march will be offered in an online format; those planning to attend the online program must register in advance.

• Sankofa Talk — An ‘All Lives Matter moment’

  By Bomani MoyendaDecember 28, 2020

  

  In the most recent installment of Bomani Moyenda’s column, “Sankofa Talk,” Moyenda recounts a tense interaction with an “All Lives Matter” proponent at a forum at Wilmington College.

• Demonstrators, Village at odds

  By Megan BachmanAugust 18, 2020

  

  Discussions between a group of anti-racist demonstrators and Village officials broke down this week after a letter from two Council members was met with a swift rebuke from organizers.

• Source documents on local anti-racist action

  By YS News StaffAugust 13, 2020

  

  Read the documents referenced in the August 13 YS News story, “Demonstrators, Village at odds.”

• ‘Empower Black Women’ — Hear speeches from weekend rally

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 15, 2020

  

  On Saturday, July 11, villagers met for the seventh weekend in an ongoing demonstration against racism and police brutality. Listen to speakers from the demonstration, which bore the theme “Empower Black Women.”

• Sankofa Talk — Fighting ’til the last day

  By Bomani MoyendaApril 27, 2020

  

  Bomani Moyenda speaks about organizing with the activist group Greene County Citizens Against Giant Jail Tax ahead of the 2020 primary.

• Music fest fundraiser to protect the Mud Run

  By Audrey HackettFebruary 22, 2020

  

  A fundraiser to help protect the Mud Run watershed, a network of waterways and wetlands located just north of Yellow Springs, is happening Saturday, Feb. 29, at the John Bryan Community Center.

• Sing for Rev. Barber, Poor People’s Campaign stop

  By YS News StaffFebruary 9, 2020

  

  The World House Choir is organizing a mass choir to sing as part of a Dayton-area stop by the Rev. William Barber and The Poor People’s Campaign on Thursday, April 23.