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The 365 Project Who is the 365 Project
Formed in 2008, the 365 Project is a Yellow Springs/Miami Township- based nonp

In case of rain, the 10am program will take place in the Wheeling Gaunt Room at the Yellow Springs Arts Council, 111 Cor...
09/11/2026

In case of rain, the 10am program will take place in the Wheeling Gaunt Room at the Yellow Springs Arts Council, 111 Corry Street.

The 365 Project will offer its annual Yellow Springs Black Food Traditions walking tour on Saturday, August 29th departi...
08/25/2026

The 365 Project will offer its annual Yellow Springs Black Food Traditions walking tour on Saturday, August 29th departing at 1pm from the Mills Park Hotel, 321 Xenia Avenue. The tour will highlight many of the Village locations associated with food prepared in following Black food traditions. The tour (approximately 90 minutes) will be led by two Yellow Springs middle school students, trained by 365 Project volunteers, and will be free courtesy of sponsorships from many local businesses.

The tour will be followed by a Black Food Traditions meal at approximately 2:30pm at The Coretta Scott King Center, 781 Livermore Street at E. Center College St. Cost for the meal is $15 per person. Advanced payment ($15 per person ) should be made by Thursday, 8/27 at the365projectys.org and press the “donate” button for general programs, or mail a check to: The 365 Project, P.O. Box 165, Yellow Springs, OH 45387; email [email protected] with questions.

Pictured: Tour guides Chaniya and Oshri Paschal at the building formerly housing Com's Restaurant, Davis Street, west of High Street, 2025

Because of inclement weather, the 365 Project's Yellow Springs Faith Institutions walking tour, originally scheduled for...
08/20/2026

Because of inclement weather, the 365 Project's Yellow Springs Faith Institutions walking tour, originally scheduled for Saturday, August 15th, has been rescheduled for Saturday, August 22nd, beginning at 1pm at the Mills Park Hotel, 321 Xenia Avenue, Yellow Springs. We will visit the many faith institutions that play an important role in creating opportunities for community-building and support in the Village. The tour is free courtesy of sponsorship from many local businesses and will be led by a Yellow Springs Middle School student, and a Yellow Springs High School student, who have been trained by 365 Project volunteers as part of a program to provide young people in Yellow Springs with another opportunity to learn and share information regarding Yellow Springs Black history and culture. If you have questions, please email [email protected]. Pictured below: tour guides Oshri Paschal and Ezra Lydy at Antioch College's Rockford Chapel, during the 2024 tour.

Today's (Sat. 8/15) Faith Institutions walking tour is being rescheduled because of the forecast for thunderstorms begin...
08/15/2026

Today's (Sat. 8/15) Faith Institutions walking tour is being rescheduled because of the forecast for thunderstorms beginning at 1pm. The new date is Saturday, August 22nd at 1pm, beginning at the Mills Park Hotel, 321 Xenia Ave. The tour will last approximately 90 minutes and highlight the many faith institutions in the Village, most of which African Americans have been member of or participants in their programs. For questions, please email [email protected]. Pictured below, guides Oshri Paschal and Ezra Lydy at Antioch's Rockford Chapel, 2024.

Please consider attending one of this year's tours (they are ~ 90 minutes). Now in our 11th year, we train middle and hi...
07/01/2026

Please consider attending one of this year's tours (they are ~ 90 minutes). Now in our 11th year, we train middle and high school students to be tour guides. They are paid through the generous sponsorship of many Yellow Springs businesses. All tours are free.

We had a typo in our 6/5 YS News ad. The image below is the corrected day and date. Thanks!
06/10/2026

We had a typo in our 6/5 YS News ad. The image below is the corrected day and date. Thanks!

April 15th, 1889, Asa (A.) Philip Randolph was born in Crescent City, Florida. Randolph was widely known for his involve...
04/21/2026

April 15th, 1889, Asa (A.) Philip Randolph was born in Crescent City, Florida. Randolph was widely known for his involvement in the March on Washington in 1963, and played a major role in leading the march. After graduating from the Cookman Institute, now known as Bethune - Cookman University, Randolph left for Harlem with goals of becoming an actor. During his time in New York, Randolph came to realize that combatting racism required collective action and became more involved in socialism and workers’ rights. He ran for a brief period for state office on the socialist ticket in the 1920’s, but was unsuccessful; he moved on from this point to focus on Black workers’ rights.

In 1925, Randolph founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, leading the group as the president. Around the same time, he pushed avidly against the federal government regarding the racial discrimination in the war industry workforce, as well as in the U.S. Armed Forces. As said before, Randolph played a crucial role in the March on Washington in 1963, leading the march that was organized by Bayard Rustin, and where Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech was shared. He is also accredited to the inspiration of the “Freedom Budget”, also known as the “Randolph Freedom Budget”. This budget aimed to take hold over economic and financial problems being faced by the Black community in America. It was later published in 1967 by the Randolph Institute, officially labeled as “A Freedom Budget for All Americans”.

April 14, 1775, the first American society dedicated to abolition – The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfull...
04/21/2026

April 14, 1775, the first American society dedicated to abolition – The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bo***ge – was founded in Philadelphia. The name later changed in 1784, becoming the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bo***ge.
The society was founded by Anthony Benezet, who formed the society just 2 years after convincing the Quakers to found the Negro School at Philadelphia. Benezet was born into a French Protestant family, and lived in France up until fleeing alongside his family from French Catholics at age 17. When migrating to Philadelphia, he joined the Society of Friends, more commonly known now as the Quakers, and began his career as an educator. In 1750, Benezet started teaching enslaved children after regular schooling hours at his home, and established the first girls’ school in 1754. Benezet moved on to persuade the Quakers, with the help of fellow Quaker John Woolman, to take an official stance against slavery in in 1758. Benezet passed in 1784, with 400 Black Philadelphians attending his funeral. After his death, his society was renamed the same year, with the presidency of the society being taken on by Benjamin Franklin in 1787.

April 13th, 1963, Sidney Poitier was the first Black American to be announced winner of an Oscar for Best Actor. Poitier...
04/21/2026

April 13th, 1963, Sidney Poitier was the first Black American to be announced winner of an Oscar for Best Actor. Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat born in Miami, Florida on February 20th, 1927. He grew up in the Bahamas, where his family lived, but due to being born in the U.S. while his family was visiting, he was granted citizenship in the United States. Poitier moved back to Miami in ~1942 at age 15, and then relocated to New York at age 16. While in New York, he gained his breakthrough role in Blackboard Jungle after joining the American Negro Theatre. He continued to gain fame for his larger leading roles, such as in The Defiant Ones, in which he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor on April 13th, 1963. His career only continued upward from then on, winning the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field just a year later in 1964.

Poitier played many strong, leading Black American roles across many different films; some of these films include: Porgy and Bess (1959), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), A Patch of Blue (1965), and others. Throughout the course of his career, he has won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, though he has been nominated for a total of at least 24 varying awards during his career. Sidney Poitier led the way for many future Black American actors, and holds a legacy to remember.

April 12th, 1975 is the death date of Josephin Baker, a popular Black American dancer, singer, actress, and civil rights...
04/21/2026

April 12th, 1975 is the death date of Josephin Baker, a popular Black American dancer, singer, actress, and civil rights activist who particularly came to fame in Europe; she died at 68 of a stroke just four days after opening a revue to celebrate her 50 years in Entertainment.

Josephine was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906.
Her mother was a washerwoman and her father a vaudeville performer. After experiencing the struggles that came with the St. Louis riots in 1917, she took her talents as a tool for relieving herself of discrimination and poverty. Her career began relatively small, in vaudeville performances and showcases across the country; during her travels she was offered an opportunity to perform in Paris, France for La Revue N***e. From then on, her entertainment career skyrocketed. Baker was the first Black American woman to star in a motion picture (film), the first Black American woman to perform with an integrated casting at the American concert hall, and one of the first Black American performers to receive recognition in both film and on-stage.

After much time spent in France and service for the French Resistance forces during World War ||, as well as receiving the Croix de Guerre, she returned to America to participate in the Civil Rights Movement. Baker was the only female speaker at the march on Washington in 1968, and honored women civil rights activists.

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