By Kate Stockrahm Flint City Councilwoman Ladel Lewis and Flint Poet Laureate Semaj Brown are inviting the community out to ...

Laurence E. MacDonald  As an American born and raised in the United States, I have long tried to pay attention to important ...

Harold C. Ford There were no surprises at the annual organizational meeting of the Flint Board of Education (FBOE) on Jan. 21 ...

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Mott Community College announced the appointment of interim president Shaunda Richardson-Snell this week amid vocal opposition from faculty and community members. Richardson-Snell is currently the ...

EVM Staff The Greater Flint African American Sports Hall of Fame (GFAASHOF) yesterday announced both its 2026 inductees and a new partnership with Flint Community Schools. Inductees include Flint ...

Pressed by a complex mix of serious financial issues, declining enrollment, momentum to supply expected workforce needs, effects of the pandemic, and even socio-cultural shifts, the University of ...

In 1923, Calvin Coolidge became president after Harding’s death, Hitler was arrested in Germany for an attempted coup, Hemingway returned from Paris, publishing his first short stories including “Up ...

Ed. note: this historical analysis originally appeared in the September, 1983 issue of The Michigan Voice, (Vol. 7, No. 6). We are reprinting it with Harold Ford’s permission to complement and offer ...

Viola, Viola lives on in history. –“Color Blind Angel,” Robin Rodgers, 2008 [Author’s note: I was moved to write this personal reflection when my son Justin Ford gifted me a book: From Selma to Sorrow ...

She was nearly half a century old by the time I showed up. Creaky wooden windows, stifling forced heat, so thick you could taste it, zero air conditioning, lead paint everywhere, and asbestos-covered ...

In a letter to University of Michigan president Santa J. Ono, 21 University of Michigan – Flint emeritus faculty have registered concerns about both the process and substance of changes proposed in a ...