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The “Black Women of Yellow Springs” tour will be presented Saturday, Aug. 12, and “Black Food Traditions of Yellow Springs” will take place Saturday, Aug. 26.

Yellow Springs came alive in 2022 with manifold events, celebrations, commemorations, new arrivals and departures.

As a lover of both food and local history, the “Black Food Traditions” tour was a no-brainer for me.

Com’s restaurant, MaJaGa Bar and Jazz Club, the Union House Hotel — these are all businesses that thrived in the Yellow Springs of yesteryear. That history — the history of Black-owned restaurants and food establishments — was the focus of the most recent Blacks in Yellow Springs walking tour, hoste

to find voice in a whisper.” —Martin Luther King, “Why We Can’t Wait” Last year, Bomani Moyenda turned down an attempt by the Yellow Springs Martin Luther King Day Planning Committee to give him a Peacemaker Award. This week he explained to the community that he did so because he was “unable to reconcile” himself as a peacemaker. After all, past recipients have been “real sweet people,” like Andrée Bognar, Willa Dallas, Isabel Newman and Phyllis Jackson. “[Those are] the k...