African Americans In YS Section

• Building Community | Sharing a lifetime of soaring

  By Cheryl DurgansFebruary 17, 2023

  

  During a recent interview with the News, village residents and co-founders of The Jael Group, or TJG, Steven and Jalyn Roe, often mentioned a spiritual concept related to “the way”: an opening, path, direction, even a process that at times means finding “a way out of no way.”

• Unsolicited Opinions | ‘The fierce urgency of now’

  By Jessica ThomasFebruary 13, 2023

  

  “How quickly can we reimagine what accountability looks like? How many more hashtags do we need before a true reckoning happens?”

• Unsolicited Opinions | What is an antiracist tomorrow?

  By Jessica ThomasNovember 23, 2022

  

  “As a person of color in this community, I often find myself torn between feeling lucky to live where I do and wanting to scream at the constant state of ‘white people just not getting it.'”

• H.U.M.A.N. library opens at Antioch College

  By Cheryl DurgansSeptember 26, 2022

  

  A newly minted library honors H.U.M.A.N.’s founders, Antioch professors William D. Chappelle and James N. Dunn and community activist Glynna Garrett.

• 1964 Editorial | What the Negro is trying to say

  By YS News StaffSeptember 15, 2022

  

  About a month after the Gegner incident, Pat Matthews, a Yellow Springs News staff member, and later, columnist, wrote this editorial, which was published in newspapers throughout the country and attracted national attention.

• Marking Black food traditions in Yellow Springs

  By Jessica ThomasAugust 3, 2022

  

  Com’s restaurant, MaJaGa Bar and Jazz Club, the Union House Hotel — these are all businesses that thrived in the Yellow Springs of yesteryear.

• Walk to honor Juneteenth, Black history

  By Lauren ShowsJune 22, 2022

  

  In its second year as both an official Village and a federal holiday, Juneteenth will be celebrated in Yellow Springs on Sunday, June 19, beginning with a 10-mile walk from Wilberforce to the village and culminating in a celebration at the Bryan Center.

• A brief history of Omar Circle

  By Cheryl DurgansApril 3, 2022

  

  One of the nation’s few housing subdivisions built by an African American developer is nestled in a location that spans 21.2-acres and includes houses situated across the street from Yellow Springs High School, and just down the road from Gaunt Park.

• Black-owned businesses in Yellow Springs: an oral history

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 11, 2022

  

  In decades past, a villager could walk through town and encounter a host of businesses owned by Black residents of Yellow Springs.

• Karen McKee honored at Martin Luther King Day event

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 26, 2022

  

  Over a blanket of snow, more than 100 villagers marched through downtown Yellow Springs in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day march on Monday, Jan. 17.