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Biden's proposal to suspend gas tax fuels debate in Ohio governor's race.

This year’s keynote speaker is Emmett Schelling, the executive director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas.

Your WYSO Morning News Update for June 22, 2022, with Mike Frazier:

The 1991 film was shot in southwest Ohio. Davis will show the film at the Little Art Theatre in Yellow Springs and at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus.

Rediscovered Radio Encore reintroduces Florynce Kennedy, an outspoken attorney and activist who bridged the Women’s Liberation and Black Power Movements in the 1960s and 70s, said “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” She was outrageous and defiant and with her middle finger in the air and a cowboy hat on her head, she came to Antioch in 1971 to talk about fighting oppression. WYSO was there.

In this iteration of Rediscovered Radio Encore, we’re taking you back to the 1960s and meeting a legendary Yellow Springs disc jockey. Music’s been a mainstay at on WYSO since we began broadcasting more than 60 years ago.

Fernandes started in August and has been tasked with growing the college's enrollment.

Robert Fogarty, the editor of the Antioch Review for over 40 years passed away recently. Antioch professors started The Review in 1941 to publish essays in the social sciences. When Fogarty took over in the 1970’s he almost single-handedly built the Review’s reputation as a great literary magazine that rivaled The New Yorker.

Dr. Jane Fernandes, formerly of Guilford College, will be the second female president in the college's 168 year history.

In 2014, Loud As The Rolling Sea guest host Dr. Kevin McGruder spent a warm summer afternoon talking to Jewel Graham in a wide ranging oral history interview that covered pretty much her whole life. She was a much loved faculty member at Antioch College for many years, deeply involved in supporting the Black students in the Antioch program for interracial education during turbulent times.

Now in his 90s, Paul Graham is a soft spoken, retired chemist living in Yellow Springs, where he went to college, launched a career and a family, and eventually became a prominent civil rights activist. His parents had come north, like so many blacks in the early 20th century, and moved to Dayton, where they joined other family members and settled down.