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Comma Bookstore and Social Hub owner Egypt Otis.

Flint’s Future is Female announces winners of first-ever Phenomenal Female Awards

“The only purpose of that is to just additionally highlight them and get them validation for their efforts, and hopefully, inspire them to continue and inspire others,”

Mott Foundation continues grant funding to bolster blight elimination efforts in Flint

The most recent grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation will strengthen Flint’s blight elimination plan and help coordinate blight elimination efforts throughout the city.

Flintside writer Xzavier Simon reflects on what it means to be a journalist covering Flint.
A writer reflects on what it means to be a journalist in Flint

"As a young boy, they filled me, my classmates, and my community with feelings of hopelessness. These stories and more were often written by those who weren’t from Beecher."

Reggie Reed, who went to Beecher, is one of several local players trying to make the Flint United roster.
Flint United is providing hope for local hoop dreamers

"It means everything to the city.”

A health department nurse administers a vaccine to a patient during the drive through vaccine clinic at Northwestern.
“When we take care of other people that brings the community together”

Residents received 500 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine last week at Flint Northwestern High School.

“I want things to be different. I want small kids and adults in this community to feel like they can call the police and know that the police are there to help them." - Estephanie Ward
Task force member hopes to find more resources to provide education, fight poverty in Flint

“I want things to be different. I want small kids and adults in this community to feel like they can call the police and know that the police are there to help them.”

“I grew up steeped in that idea that you help those who come after you and you hope they will help the people who come after them.” Victoria Arteaga
Conozcan los tres lideres de la Latinx comunidad ayudandao familias en Flint

Meet three leaders of the Latinx community in Flint helping migrant families find hope.

Edith Prunty Spencer moved to Flint in 1948.
Learn how the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority has been serving Flint since the 1950s

“There was something special about the women who were AKAs."

Charlie Burt, Haley Orange, and Kyle Maddock of Flint City Hard Cider Co.
A group of Flint minds got together and turned a parking lot into a Winter Wonderland

Flint City Hard Cider Co. re-imagined a parking lot as a dynamic community space where people can safely gather and here live music.

Local author Bob Campbell released his first book in November.
“It continued to nag at me, the belief that I had a story worth telling”

Local author Bob Campbell released his first novel in November, set in a city with a lot of similarities to Flint.

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