Black music for sinners and everyone else
People talk about two things when they talk about director Ryan Coogler’s new film, “Sinners.” The vampires and the juke joint scene. Forget the vampires. All around us every day …
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Juneteenth, according to a northern Black
An African American woman might be ashamed to admit she had to go research Juneteenth, but I am not and I did. Juneteenth started as a Texas holiday celebrating African American freedom. Being a …
Barrett’s absence delays the inescapable NAACP victory
The NAACP has been scoring against backwards-leaning politicians for decades. U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett is just the latest in a long line who thought they could beat it. He won’t.
More details, please, on Michigan Parents Council appointees
I gave my journalism students an assignment to use the internet to discover information about public people. One was Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero. We looked for his residence, his spouse, her …
It’s time to give teachers, and nurses, reasons to show up
One day when I was the lead faculty of the Lansing Community College Writing Program, I was hanging around in the department lobby area where, at the administrative assistant’s desk, a group of students demanded to see the department’s chairperson. They should have been in class, but there was no class because their professor was absent, again.