If you missed the last episode of The Saturday Six Pack on Ypsilanti’s AM 1700, you missed one hell of a good time. I don’t want to give too much away, as I think you should listen for yourself, but here are a few of the highlights. [If you’d like to listen to the episode […]
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The state of hip hop, the eating of 20-foot-long sausages, and the erotic drawings of fictional amphibians… on episode 7 of The Saturday Six Pack
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged bias, Brandon Mitchell, Charlie's Angels, Chris Sandon, Colin Moorhouse, Cross Street Station, cults, Dabrye, Degrassi Junior High, Derek Whitaker, discrimination, Encoded Flow, FLY Children's Art Center, George Lucas, hip hop, Iggy Pop, Jason Youngs, Jim Cherewick, Knifebeard Sausagehawk, Kyle Kipp, Leonard Nimoy, MC Kadence, Morgan Cox, Oddside Ales, penises, Pete Larson, Pete Townsend, Pylon, race, rap, sausage, science fiction, smeet, smeet penises, Sprout, Tadd Mullinix, Wurst Challenge, Ypsi Underground 13 Comments
Exploring Ypsilanti’s place on the Underground Railroad: part one
On the evening of December 1, our friend Matt Siegfried, who I interviewed here not too long ago about Ypsilanti’s Native American past, will be at the downtown branch of the Ypsilanti District Library, presenting his research on the role Ypsilantians played on the Underground Railroad. In hopes that it might inspire a few of […]
Posted in History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Abolitionism, African American Mysteries: Order of the Men of Oppression, AFSCME Local 1666, American history, Anti-Slavery Bugle, Artis, Asher Aray, Bernice Kersey, black settlements, Bound for Canaan, Brother Ray, Brown Chapel, Buxton, Canada, Chatham Convention, cigars, Civil War, desegregation, Detroit, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, escaped slaves, First Avenue, freedom, freedom fighters, George DeBaptiste, George McCoy, Harper’s Ferry, Hart Lodge #10, Herman Kersey, hidden cargo, Isa Stewart, Isaac Berry, James Birney, James H. Kersey, John Anderson, John Brown, John Rankin, Kersey, Lambert Lands, Levi Coffin, Liberator, Matt Siegfried, Missouri, misunderstanding American history, NAACP, Negro Folktales in Michigan, newspapers, obituaries, Ohio River Valley, oral history, Prince Hall Masons, race, reconstruction, refugees, revolution, Richard Glazier, Rolanda Kersey, runaway slaves, Second Avenue, Second Baptist, secret compartments, secret societies, Signal of Liberty, slave rebellion, slave trade, slavery, social reform, South Adams Street, South Adams Street School, Stephen Sullivan, Theron Kersey, UGRR, underground railroad, Virginia, Washington Hawkins, Weurth Theater, whitewashing, Wilbur Henry Siebert, William King, William Lambert, William Moore, William Munro, Wyandotte, Ypsi history, Ypsilanti Commercial 21 Comments
Back in Black…. the apparent resurgence of blackface
I wasn’t going to comment on the University of Michigan frat thing that’s been all over the news these past few days, as I don’t think I have anything terribly insightful to contribute toward our collective understanding of “ratchet pussy,” but I did have a somewhat related question that I wanted to pose to all […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Observations, Other, Uncategorized Also tagged Civil War, emancipation, frat boys, frats, George Zimmerman, Halloween, Julianne Hough, Ken Padgett, minstrel shows, Quinn Phillips, racism, ratchet, slavery, stereotypes, Theta Xi, Trayvon Martin 21 Comments