Black Lives Matter

This week Central State University presents a play that rewrites recent history. Local poet and activist Bomani Moyenda has written his first play, “What’s Done in the Dark.” The play creates a fictionalized case based on the police killing of John Crawford III and a community’s struggle for accountability.

The Village of Yellow Springs has passed a resolution declaring Juneteenth a holiday.

Tara Casto has been out of prison for three years and is raising a multiracial family. As she told ReEntry Stories producer Mary Evans, the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement is having a big impact on her life.

Latisha Ellis is a poet, author and recently became co-owner of PoiBois Entertainment, a performing arts group that uses pyrotechnic tools, poetry and music to spread the message of community building. We met Latisha last year during season one of ReEntry Stories, and today, she will share with us the story that made her the winner of the 2020 Dayton Story Slam.

There have been Black Lives Matter protests for thirteen consecutive weeks in Yellow Springs, and they will continue this Saturday.

A Better Dayton Coalition organized a memorial service today at Courthouse Square in honor of George Floyd and other victims of police violence, as…

From marches to vigils to die-ins, cities across the country have been holding demonstrations over the last week. Residents are protesting police…

In 2016, 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the National Anthem to raise awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement. When…

No major incidents were reported on a day of multiple protests across the Miami Valley Saturday.In Centerville, more than two dozen people gathered at a…

More than a dozen people waved Confederate flags and called for the return of a Confederate monument to its historic location in the Warren County city of…

Organizers with a group that planned to protest a Confederate monument in the city of Franklin, in Warren County, say they'll move Saturday's rally to…

At least 100 people gathered Saturday afternoon outside the Beavercreek Walmart store where John Crawford III was shot and killed by a police officer…