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Awesome U-M undergrads launch startup to teach American history through the stories of inspirational women

By Mark | November 3, 2015

The Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation a few days ago awarded a $1,000 grant to Virginia Lozano, an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, who, along with her twin sister Beatriz, created an education technology company called Leesta in order to “inspire 8-11 year olds by teaching American History through the stories of women.” After bestowing […]

Posted in A2Awesome, Awesome Foundation, Education, History | Also tagged A People's History of the United States, advertising, American Studies, animation, art school, autism, awesome women, Beatriz Lozano, Bessie Coleman, BrainPop, Charles H. Wright African American Museum, Coco Chanel, Dolores Huerta, education reform, entrepreneurship, gamification, Howard Zinn, hugging machine, Leesta, Mike Huckabee, misunderstanding American history, Paula Friedrich, rewriting history, software, Stamps School of Art and Design, Stephanie O’ Neil, strong women, Temple Grandin, University of Michigan, Virginia Lozano, women who kick ass, Zinn Education Project | 6 Comments

Grace Lee Boggs, the mother of Detroit activism, passes away peacefully at 100

By Mark | October 5, 2015

Activist and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs died peacefully in her sleep this morning at the age of 100. If you never had an opportunity to meet her personally, or hear her speak, I’d suggest making time this evening to watch the documentary American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, which does a great job […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit | Also tagged another famous person has died, black power, C.L.R. James, Chinese Americans, civil rights, community organizing, Hegel, James Boggs, Karl Marx, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Marxism, philosophy, revolution | 3 Comments

Two Frenchies on what they love about Detroit’s “Do It Ourselves” culture, and why they’re making a film about it

By Mark | July 12, 2012

A few months ago, I received a nice note from two French filmmakers, who, for some reason, had stumbled across my site and liked it. Their names were Nora Mandray and Hélène Bienvenu, and, as I’d come to learn over the course of subsequent emails, they had been living in the the area for some […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, Sustainability | Also tagged Arthur K. Peters Memorial Travel Grant, Beaubien, bikes, Caspar David Friedrich, Centre National de la Cinématographie, cities, community, community coming together, decent human community, decline, Detroit je t'aime, Detroit Soup, DIO, DIY, documentary film, Fender Bender, film making, France, French Film Institute, Fulbright scholars, generation Y, hackers, Hantz Farms, Hungary, ingenuity, Kickstarter, La Croix, Lafayette, metaphors, Nora Mandray, Packard Plant, parables, Paris, Paris Institute of Political Studies, post-industrial era, Recycle Here, Romain Meffre, Romantism, ruin porn, self-reliance, soup, the Detroit situation, the future of American cities, the lessons of Detroit, the parable of Detroit, UCLA, urban farming, urban food system, urban living, urban renewal, utopias, Yves Marchand | 21 Comments

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Awesome U-M undergrads launch startup to teach American history through the stories of inspirational women

Grace Lee Boggs, the mother of Detroit activism, passes away peacefully at 100

Two Frenchies on what they love about Detroit’s “Do It Ourselves” culture, and why they’re making a film about it

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