Yellow Springs

Local bands are set to perform across 36 porches in Yellow Springs on Saturday, bringing the community together for live and local music.

Joe Boggs says the extraordinary outbreak in and around the Village of Yellow Springs in Greene County has an ecological explanation.

The Yellow Springs Village Council will meet later this month to vote on legislation that would prohibit housing discrimination based on source of income.

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

The Council unanimously voted to annex 34 acres in order to open up room for more housing.

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.

The Yellow Springs Village Council met this week to discuss the new high speed internet for the village, which will be less expensive than AT&T and Spectrum.

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.

In this installment, we’ll hear about student activism in the 1960s and 70s in Greene County, home to two historically Black colleges – Central State and Wilberforce University AND Antioch College. Students at all three schools organized protests, marches, sit-ins, rallies, pickets and more during those years, pressing hard and relentlessly for civil rights for African Americans.

Vick Mickunas' 1997 interview with Arnold Adoff for "Love Letters"

Our new series from the Eichelberger Center for Community Voices is called Loud as the Rolling Sea. It brings us the voices from a generation of African Americans in Yellow Springs, Ohio, who were the civil rights activists of their day. In our first profile, we meet Dr. Yvonne Seon, founding director of the Bolinga Center at Wright State University.

In the next month, you're going to hear stories that began as a community oral history project 10 years ago in Yellow Springs, when citizens came together to gather the stories of the Civil Rights generation of activists, both Black and white, who were born in the 20s and 30s.