Melvin Parson and I have been working off an on for the past two years on an interview for this site. It began as an Ypsilanti Immigration Interview, and, over time, as we dug deeper into his work with We The People Growers Association, evolved into something more about his dream of establishing a world-class […]
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Melvin Parson and the campaign to create a world-class urban farm in Ypsilanti
Posted in Agriculture, Ann Arbor, Detroit, entrepreneurism, Environment, Food, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged 13th, addiction, Ann Arbor, Avalon Housing, Black Beauty, community gardens, culinary arts, Dawn Farm, Detroit, Doug Coombe, drugs, Edible Avalon, Emanuel Tyus, food hub, fundraising, Great Migration, Henry Ford, Henry Ford Museum, heroin, inequality, Kerrytown, Kerrytown Farmers Market, local food, local food production, matching grants, Melvin Parson, Michigan Department of Corrections, Parkridge Homes, Port Huron, prison industry, prison reform, Shaka Senghor, social justice, St. Joseph Mercy, substance abuse, urban farming, Washtenaw County Jail, We The People Growers Association, We The People Opportunity Center, white flight, Wizard of Oz, YCS, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti Community Schools 9 Comments
Bestselling author Shaka Senghor takes us inside the “big warehouse of human misery” that is the American prison system, filmmaker Donald Harrison tells us about his new Commie High documentary, and we talk judicial reform with civil rights attorney Dick Soble… on episode 43 of the Saturday Six Pack
For those of you who didn’t catch episode 43 of The Saturday Six Pack when it was first broadcast a few weeks ago, it’s now available online. If you scroll to the bottom of this post, you’ll find it embedded. If you’d rather not hear my voice, though, here are my abbreviated notes. Our first […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Detroit, Michigan, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged #cut50, accountability partners, authors, Calvin Evans, civil rights, Cut 50, Detroit, Dick Soble, Donald Goines, East Detroit, fiction, Malcolm X, mysteries, Oprah, overincarceration, pacts, prison, prison reform, Red Squad, Shaka Senghor, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the cost of incarceration, Urban Ashes 10 Comments
Talking about saving trees and saving lives with the folks at Urban Ashes, the controversial EMU presidential search, and Cultivate Coffee and Tap House… on this weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack
While a few elements are still coming together concerning this Saturday evening’s show, I wanted to share couple of items with you so that you can start thinking about the things we’ll be discussing, and perhaps share this post with others who you think might be interested. Before I get into what we’ll be discussing […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Billy Kangas, Calvin Evans, Cultivate Coffee and Tap House, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Frank Allison, furniture, Howard Bunsis, Judith Kullberg, parole, Paul Hickman, picture frames, prison labor, shared governance, trees, Urban Ashes 8 Comments