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By Harold C. Ford On June 12, 2025, the International Center of Greater Flint (ICGF) revealed the findings of its roughly year-long study to determine the extent to which the Flint community is ...
By EVM Staff While Juneteenth has been recognized as a federal holiday for just four years, it’s been a celebrated tradition ...
By Christina Collie This is the seventh in a series about parks and recreational areas to explore in Flint and surrounding ...
Posted on Jun 21, 2023. By Robert Thomas. Subtitled American Crises (and Essays), Call Them by Their True Names is Rebecca Solnit’s powerful 2018 collection of timely essays. The book’s forward, ...
Posted on Jun 28, 2023. By Paul Rozycki. In 1923, Calvin Coolidge became president after Harding’s death, Hitler was arrested in Germany for an attempted coup, Hemingway returned from Paris, ...
The University of Michigan – Flint is “a beacon of hope” for the Flint community, UMF Chancellor Debasish Dutta declares, and he intends to keep it that way. “I am committed to doing everything I can ...
Posted on Aug 24, 2017. by Harold C. Ford “A riot is the language of the unheard.” —Martin Luther King “The officer hit him and said, ‘We’re going to kill all of you black-ass nigger pimps and throw ...
But that wasn’t the only opportunity for work at Washington. I was also a Flag Boy raising the flag every morning in front of the school, a Hall Monitor (that didn’t last long), a Crossing Guard (with ...
A group of protesters marched around the four corners of Saginaw and Court streets from about 6 p.m. to about 8 p.m. Some protesters gathered at the flat lot near UM-Flint around 8 p.m.
Posted on Sep 1, 2023. By Tom Travis. Both the mouse and I were upset with the positions we found ourselves in. I flipped on the light inside my shower and turned the water on as I’ve done every ...