I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Nation of Islam leader and part time Michigan resident Louis Farrakhan rallied support for jailed Benton Harbor preacher Edward Pinkney at an event there on Friday, telling a crowd of 400 that Pinkney was trying to be “a tool in the tool chest of God,” the Herald Palladium reports.
Rev. Edward Pinkney — a longtime Benton Harbor activist, Baptist preacher and committed critic of the local criminal justice system — was sentenced to 3-10 years in prison after a local judge determined that he’d violated his probation by authoring a critical article in the Chicago People’s Tribune.
After serving one year of this sentence Pinkney was released from prison pending appeal and is under house in Benton Harbor. Pinkney is represented by the ACLU of Michigan and oral arguments in his case are scheduled to begin tomorrow in the State Court of Appeals in Grand Rapids.
The Rally for Unity and Justice that brought Farrakhan to Benton Harbor was organized by Marcus Muhammad, a Benton Harbor High School basketball coach who is running for a seat on the city commission.
More information about Pinkney’s case is available here.
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