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A screen grab from the Save Summer 2021 video created by a UM-Flint student.

University of Michigan-Flint student’s message to peers: “Save Summer”

Christina Zerka, a University of Michigan-Flint student, helped create a campaign to raise COVID-19 vaccine awareness among her peers.

Mott coach Steve Schmidt and assistant Kevin Tiggs watch a scrimmage during a Mott basketball practice in December.
Flintside wins six 2020 Michigan Press Association awards

Flintside won six 2020 Michigan Press Association Better Newspaper Contest awards and has won 15 in the last two years.

40 days of rediscovery and healing with Beecher native Jeneé “Royalty” Price

Recounting the last several years of her life, Jeneé, or as she’s called now, Ms. Royalty chronicles her experience “with depression and how I overcame and claimed spiritual and emotional victory.”

Flint native Chuniq Inpower is celebrating the 1-year anniversary of her business, 810 Tacos.
Flint native Chuniq Inpower is providing a taste of home with 810 Tacos

Flint native Chuniq Inpower has straightforward advice for people with entrepreneurial ideas: "Just do it!"

Incarcerated citizens in Genesee County began receiving the COVID-19 vaccine this week.
Genesee County begins providing COVID-19 vaccines to incarcerated citizens

Genesee County began administering the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to incarcerated citizens this week.

The Mr. Prince Gourmet Food Truck is open at the Flint Farmer's Market from May through November.
Restart Flint grant helps popular food truck prepare for another busy season

The Mr. Prince Gourmet Food Truck was able to survive during the COVID-19 pandemic thanks, in part, to a grant from the Flint and Genesee Chamber of Commerce.

“We’re committed to improving the financial literacy of residents and young in Flint”

Antonio Brown of John L Financial Services offers some tips and information during a more complex than normal tax preparation season.

In the world of ballet, 18-year-old Flint native Ashton Edwards is the exception and not the norm. With style, dignity, and grace Edwards has jumped, leaped, and asserted his way into a majorly white-dominated profession.
Flint native Ashton Edwards redefines ballet and does it all “en pointe”

Through hard work, determination, and the support of his family, Edwards moved from Flint to Seattle, Washington, to join Pacific Northwest Ballet’s (PNB) elite Professional Division, where he intends to upend traditional ballet standards.

Veloso photographed nurses, doctors, environmental services workers, first responders, EMTs, and police officers in the series.
Flint photojournalist’s series on frontline workers featured in UK documentary

Flint resident and photojournalist Jenifer Veloso shared stories of Genesee County frontline workers in a documentary about global healthcare workers that is being produced in the United Kingdom.

Shonte’ Terhune-Smith founded YOLO in 2018.
Flint native’s business provides breastfeeding support to mothers in Flint and Genesee County

"We are mainly wanting to give women of color a place to go to with somebody in a professional setting to help support them with breastfeeding."

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