By Mark | January 22, 2016
While I’d talked with Ypsi High art teacher Lynne Settles a few times over this past year, about the HP Jacobs mural that she and her students had created on the side of Currie’s barbershop, and other community art related things, I didn’t realize until a few weeks ago that she was actually a relatively […]
Posted in History, Special Projects, The Saturday Six Pack, Ypsilanti | Also tagged African American history, art, black lives matter, Currie's barbershop, diversity, Doug Jones, Great Migration, Howard University, HP Jacobs, Imani, Kate de Fuccio, Kwanzaa, Laura Bien, Lynne Settles, Matt Siegfried, Maulana Karenga, murals, Nia, public art, racism, teaching, teaching in public school, Westland, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti Community Schools, Ypsilanti high school, Ypsilanti Township |
By Mark | December 10, 2015
If you haven’t yet listened to last weekend’t episode of the Saturday Six Pack, you should. It was a nearly perfect mix, at least from my perspective, of seriously thought-provoking and just plain fun. Among other things, we talked with a representative from the University of Michigan delegation at the Paris climate talks, two of […]
Posted in History, Monkey Power Trio, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Arsenal of Democracy, black lives matter, Darius Simpson, Daryl Holman, demands, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Henry Ford, Jim Cherewick, Jim Stehlin, Kim Schatzel, Matt Siegfried, myths, Paris, Paul Edwards, race riots, racism, Ricky Rood, Rosie the Riveter, strikes, Student Liberation Action Movement, The Black Student 10-Point Plan, wildcat strikes |
Arlo has been waking up early lately in order to adorn himself with what he calls “tiger legs” before heading off to school. [He’s also been growling a lot more lately.] Up until yesterday, I’d been fine with it. Now, though, as a result of the recent news out of Spokane, I feel as though […]
Three people have written to me over the past 24 hours requesting that I start a thread on the riots that are currently raging in Baltimore. This post is for them. If not for their notes, I don’t think I would have mentioned it here. It’s not that I don’t care that Freddy Gray was […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged Baltimore, David Simon, Freddie Gray, John Angelos, LBJ, Michael Jackson, MLK, police violence, riots, The Wire |
How do I stay so skinny eating 50 pancakes a day? Easy, I keep having my head moved to different bodies! And you can too. Just get a job as on-air talent at an AM radio station with a world class graphic design department… For more life lessons like this one, be sure to tune […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Anthony Morgan, Aura Rosser, beer, black lives matter, Elize Jekabson, Eric Garner, First Fridays, First Fridays Ypsilanti, Kate de Fuccio, Kayj Michelle, Kelli Harden-Klenotic, Matt Jones, Michael Brown, New Holland Brewing, police abuse, police state, police tactics, Tony Morgan, Trayvon Martin, White Hatter |
