Community dialogues provide insight on how to create “radical change”
Community Roots facilitated four dialogues with Flint residents to brainstorm ways to confront and combat structural racism and inequity.
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Youth Arts: Unlocked finds creative ways to deliver virtual programs at GVRC
Youth Arts: Unlocked had to overcome several challenges to kids at the Genesee Valley Regional Center during the COVID-19 pandemic.
MSU epidemiologist hopes task force builds bridge between community, law enforcement
"The goal is to build a strong bridge between the police department and the community that they serve."
“I want this to be a landmark”
Meet the owner of Comma Bookstore and Social Hub Egypt Otis.
“Good officers must have the courage to say what happened to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor was wrong”
New city of Flint Chief of Police Terence Green took office in September. He answered a few questions from Flintside about what his goals are as chief and the state of policing, both in Flint and around the country.
Students from Flint and beyond tackling environmental justice challenges
Five groups of high school students presented big ideas to solve environmental injustice in Flint, with a winning team set to receive mentoring from 100K Ideas.
Quit using Flint to score social media points
The challenges in Flint shouldn't be trivialized, but that's exactly what happens when the water crisis is reduced to a social media clapback.
Rasheed Wallace does the work
Unflappable and above all else, unapologetically real, Rasheed Wallace keeps showing up for Flint.
Message from the Editor: “Say Its Name”
It's not fair that we media entities are able to show our hands bloody with fact, without ever telling anyone how deep it runs and how there’s a whole delta for deaths like these. This isn’t some bubbling creek of happenstance death.
‘10 minutes, makes 10 years of funding’: Seeing the census through the pandemic
The Census Bureau is reworking its process due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Local volunteers and coordinators like Anthony Turner are working on engagement tactics that don't breach social-distancing concerns. As of April 19, Flint has a 41% self-response rate compared to 56.9% statewide self-response rate. How will people stay engaged through their computer screens and off? When will it be possible to get people on the ground? Is a computer response the only way to be counted? Read and view our interview with City of Flint's Census Coordinator, Anthony Turner, for greater insight into these questions.
Youth Arts: Unlocked finds creative ways to deliver virtual programs at GVRC
Youth Arts: Unlocked had to overcome several challenges to kids at the Genesee Valley Regional Center during the COVID-19 pandemic.
MSU epidemiologist hopes task force builds bridge between community, law enforcement
"The goal is to build a strong bridge between the police department and the community that they serve."
“I want this to be a landmark”
Meet the owner of Comma Bookstore and Social Hub Egypt Otis.
“Good officers must have the courage to say what happened to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor was wrong”
New city of Flint Chief of Police Terence Green took office in September. He answered a few questions from Flintside about what his goals are as chief and the state of policing, both in Flint and around the country.
Students from Flint and beyond tackling environmental justice challenges
Five groups of high school students presented big ideas to solve environmental injustice in Flint, with a winning team set to receive mentoring from 100K Ideas.
Quit using Flint to score social media points
The challenges in Flint shouldn't be trivialized, but that's exactly what happens when the water crisis is reduced to a social media clapback.
Rasheed Wallace does the work
Unflappable and above all else, unapologetically real, Rasheed Wallace keeps showing up for Flint.
Message from the Editor: “Say Its Name”
It's not fair that we media entities are able to show our hands bloody with fact, without ever telling anyone how deep it runs and how there’s a whole delta for deaths like these. This isn’t some bubbling creek of happenstance death.
‘10 minutes, makes 10 years of funding’: Seeing the census through the pandemic
The Census Bureau is reworking its process due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Local volunteers and coordinators like Anthony Turner are working on engagement tactics that don't breach social-distancing concerns. As of April 19, Flint has a 41% self-response rate compared to 56.9% statewide self-response rate. How will people stay engaged through their computer screens and off? When will it be possible to get people on the ground? Is a computer response the only way to be counted? Read and view our interview with City of Flint's Census Coordinator, Anthony Turner, for greater insight into these questions.
