The Briar Patch— Mortgaging humanity: Property values and the life of...
“Thought which emerges from the use of symbol and the symbolic can be called “speculative” or “imaginative” … Speculative thought is more akin to intuitive if not visionary modes of apprehension....
View ArticleThe Briar Patch— A dilemma with good reason
Reason – the power of the mind to think, understand and form judgments by a process of logic. Reason – a cause, explanation or justification for an action or event —Dictionary.com Yellow Springs has a...
View ArticleJuneteenth celebrations in the village
In January of this year, Village Council passed a resolution that recognized Juneteenth as an official holiday in Yellow Springs; in March, the day was adopted as a paid holiday for Village employees....
View ArticleReparations fund to address past injustice
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, when mobs of whites from Tulsa, Okla. violently razed the thriving Black community of Greenwood — known as “Black Wall Street” — to the...
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365 Project — Exploring Black ancestry at Glen Forest Cemetery
On Saturday, July 24, people slowly trickled into Glen Forest cemetery, lingering near the cannon commemorating the service of veterans during the Civil War, including Black soldiers who are buried in...
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Wheeling Gaunt sculpture unveiled in downtown Yellow Springs
Standing over six-feet tall and glinting with a deep bronze exterior, a lifesize statue of 19th-century Yellow Springs resident, philanthropist and formerly enslaved man Wheeling Gaunt, was unveiled on...
View ArticleVillage elders reflect on the Black experience, Pt. I
This article is the first of a three-part series about the life experiences of African American elders who are in their 80s and 90s living in Yellow Springs. The African American population of Yellow...
View ArticleVillage elders reflect on the Black experience, Pt. II
This is the second article in a three-part series featuring African American elders who live in Yellow Springs. Click here for the first part of the series. Villagers Paul Graham and Phillip Lawson...
View ArticleVillage elders reflect on the Black experience, Pt. III
This is the final article in a three-part series featuring African American elders who live in Yellow Springs. Their experiences were part of a larger discussion that included James Felder, Geneva...
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Karen McKee honored at Martin Luther King Day event
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. After walking and singing in below-freezing...
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