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Beyond Good and Bad: A Conversation with Connor Coyne
By Kelsey Ronan On September 22nd, Flint native Connor Coyne will launch a novel twenty-two [...]
Dad Rock: Tom Petty and the Music of My Father
By Erin Osmon When we buried my mother in a sylvan plot on the north [...]
Sipu Asuwakana (River Songs)
By D.A. Lockhart Chikënëmwi Sipu Listen as the creek trickles past sugar maple creek [...]
Aretha Was Detroit
By Aaron Foley Reprinted with permission from Detroit's The Neighborhoods, where Aaron Foley has continued to [...]
An Excerpt From Urbantasm, A Novel. Book One: The Dying City
Excerpted with permission from Urbantasm: The Dying City, available for purchase in September 2018. By Connor [...]
Why Do We Continue To Be Surprised By Gentrification?
Part of what many people find so irritating—or dangerous, depending on how much you have at stake—about upwardly mobile young people moving to working-class city neighborhoods is the sense of frivolity, of flightiness, they carry with them.
Activism then and now: A talk by Randy Cunningham
By Randy Cunningham The following is an edited transcript of a talk given by Randy [...]
Too Fancy for Flint?
I live in Flint. I own a home in the city. However, I’m still often reluctant to call Flint my home. This isn’t because I’m not madly in love with this place, or incredibly proud to live in the city. It’s because of the way I talk. As soon as I open my mouth, most people realize I’m clearly not from here.
Pot Still Won’t Be Legal In Ohio For Awhile, But At The Cleveland School Of Cannabis Students Are Already Hitting The Books
The building is one of those beige, ’80s office numbers, and through the half-shut blinds, cars are whizzing past on Interstate 480. It’s a beautiful day in April, and in the darkened classroom, the teacher is doing a midterm review with the students, going through slides of vocabulary and textbook photos.
Main-Travelled Roads: Introduction
By Brianne Jaquette From Main-Travelled Roads, by Hamlin Garland, an inaugural title in Belt Publishing’s [...]
Michigan’s Primary Has Been Heralded As The Next Test For The “Blue Wave,” But What Does It Mean For Muslims In Michigan?
“Everybody let’s imagine something together. This can be our great moment. It’s nine days from now, Aug 7. Election night. There are headlines all around the world. We see them on CNN, on MSNBC, even on Fox News. “And what are we going to see?”
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