For those of you who weren’t at Detroit Metro Airport last week, when over 10,000 people gathered in the snow to protest Trump’s anti-Muslim executive action, here’s video from our friend Donald Harrison at 7 Cylinders Studio.
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Incredible video of last week’s protest at Detroit Metro Airport
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized Also tagged anti-Muslim, Detroit Metro Airport, Donald Trump, protests, xenophobia Leave a comment
Our Voices Will Be Heard: highlights from MLK Day 2017 in Ypsilanti, MI
On this evening’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack, I’ll be talking with Ypsi High art teacher Lynne Settles, one of her students, and local historian Matt Siegfried about the silent march across Yspilanti that they coordinated this past Martin Luther King Day, and the multi-venue art exhibit that awaited all of those who attended […]
Being reminded of David Blair at POP-X
When my friend David Blair, the much loved Detroit poet, passed away unexpectedly about five years ago, I said here on the site that I thought it was likely, given the kind of man that David was, and the poetry that he’d produced during his lifetime, that we’d continue to be reminded of him through […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Detroit, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Andrew Thompson, cartography, David Blair, FLY Children's Art Center, Linette Lao, Lisa Waud, maps, Marie Tharp, Martin Thoburn, Omari Rush, Philip Levine, poetry, POP-X 5 Comments
Bestselling author Shaka Senghor on redemption and atonement, the making of the Commie High documentary, and civil rights attorney Dick Soble… on this weekend’s edition of the Saturday Six Pack
On this Saturday’s show, we’ll be joined by Shaka Senghor, the author of the New York Times bestseller Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison. A recent Detroit-based fellow at MIT’s Media Lab, Senghor was released from prison in 2010, after serving 19 years for second-degree murder, a crime which he […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged arbitration, atonement, authors, Calvin Evans, Commie High, Community High, Dick Soble, dispute resolution, drug dealing, drugs, ex-prisoners, gun violence, MIT, MIT Media Lab, murder, Oprah, prison, prison industrial complex, prison reform, redemption, Shaka Senghor, solitary confinement, The Daily Show, Writing My Wrongs: Life Death and Redemption in an American Prison 19 Comments
Ypsilanti Immigration Interview: Jen Proctor
I’m sure I’ll live to regret it, but I made the decision this weekend, after learning that filmmaker Jen Proctor had moved to Ypsi Township, to broaden the scope of the Ypsi Immigration Interview project to include people moving not only into the city proper, but also the surrounding environs… Could this be the start […]
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized Also tagged A Movie, Amway, Annex the Township, art films, Art Prize, birthday cakes, Bruce Conner, cats, depression, Dick DeVos, Film, ghost hunting, ghosts, Grand Rapids, haunting, Jen Proctor, Jeopardy, One Ypsilanti, Paranormal Convention, Pittsfield Township, San Francisco, Sault Ste. Marie, Spalding Gray, Star Wars, Sweet Heather Anne, Winnie the Pooh, Ypsi immigration interview 23 Comments
