Maybe you can’t wait for that first sip of Oberon when the weather warms up. Maybe the place you love to stop for a sandwich has a brewery in the basement. Maybe you have a brother who brews beer in his kitchen and never shuts up about it. Craft beer has jumped out of the […]
Flint continues taking steps to eliminate lead exposure as it adds new community resources and raises awareness. As part of that plan, three members of Flint Lead Free, a work group of the Flint Registry, recently attended the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Training Center conference in […]
Flint’s children will start to see things more clearly with support from one of the city’s native sons. Tom Gores, Detroit Pistons owner and founder of the FlintNOW Foundation, is partnering with the Vision To Learn nonprofit to help local students receive the eyewear they need to excel. Vision To Learn serves low-income youth in […]
Thousands of children who may have been exposed to elevated levels of lead in the Flint water supply will now be screened to see if they need special education or health care services. The testing comes after an agreement was reached by attorneys for Flint school children with the Michigan Department of Education, Genesee Intermediate […]
A connection to her past is paying dividends toward a new lawyer’s future. A decade ago Judge Herman Marable Jr. recruited Flint native Charis Lee into his long-running Student of the Month program, which helps inspire Genesee County high school students to strive for academic excellence and career achievement. That training made all the difference […]
There had been one too many drive-by shootings, one too many acts of violence, one too many people close to Kenyetta Dotson for her to just stay inert. Both her closest friend and her aunt were victims of gun violence in the recent past. Their deaths were the tipping point and all the motivation Dotson […]
Shon Hart speaks very frankly about the faulty fathering that was at work in his own household. It’s a tender subject, but one he’s willing to open up about given what he went through. “I had been waiting all my life for my father to speak to me – to my destiny to help me […]
As cities go, Flint has more than its fair share of neighborhood organizations, block clubs and concerned citizens who want nothing more than the growth and prosperity that has started to take hold to continue. Right alongside them are nonprofit organizations that are working to better the city. Primary among those is the Ruth Mott […]
Summer on Flint’s Frontlines with Lindsay Baywol This blog submission begins an exclusive weekly series of entries and personal reflections about Flint from the perspectives of Grand Blanc, Michigan, native Lindsay Baywol, a Michigan State University student, and Georgetown University student Gina Kim, of New Jersey. The women are participants in the 2017 Diplomat Fellowship for […]
More than a year after the city he serves faced a water emergency Patrick Hawkins remains vigilant. “Water is the one thing that can build or destroy you. Everything revolves around it,” says Hawkins, a prime mover in establishing health fairs and clinics for seniors in the aftermath of the Flint water crisis. With the […]