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.
DETROIT — The Motor City has been most famous for its past industrial endeavors. That’s why it’s still a bit surprising to some that within the city limits, there are more than 700 urban farms that yield more than 120 tons of produce each year. When harvest season comes around, the social aspect of urban farming shines through, with farmers coming together to celebrate the season at parties brimming with locally grown food and drink.
The Oscar nominations were announced this morning in California, and Gran Torino, the film starring Clint Eastwood and filmed in Michigan, while garnering stellar reviews, has been overlooked.
Two films shot in Michigan are released this month, some of the first fruits of last year’s increased film industry incentives offered by the state of Michigan. First is Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino,” which opens Jan. 9. The film was shot in Detroit, and features actors from Flint and Detroit. It has been called “the [...]
The Livingston County Prosecutor announced yesterday that he will not seek charges against 19 teenagers who were found to possess nude images of a 14-year-old girl. Prosecutor David Morse told the Lansing State Journal that while possessing and distributing the pictures was a criminal act, he felt the school officials and parents handled the situation [...]
[COMMENTARY] When I moved to Detroit, one of the first things I noticed was the number of churches I saw. I couldn’t turn a corner without seeing a cross at the top or on the side of large traditional church buildings and smaller storefront churches. I started wondering: Why all the churches? Recently, I got [...]
[COMMENTARY] Before Sunday night, the NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund dinner organizers never got so many people of different backgrounds from all over the country, if not the world, to pay attention to what they had to say. Of course this has everything to do with Barack Obama and the fact that we are close [...]
[Ed. note: Forman, a recent graduate of Oakland University, is our newest Michigan Messenger Fellow.] [COMMENTARY] Cultural identity is vital to how people communicate and, in many ways, how they view the world. So if you’re from a multicultural background, the sooner you can define which culture you step to, the sooner you can start [...]
Libraries now let patrons check out a lot more than books: VHS and DVD movies, books on tape and CDs, MP3s, games, magazines and even art. But thanks to Macy’s, you can now check out southeastern Michigan museums and other cultural venues. The two-month-old Detroit Museum Adventure Pass program allows library-card holders at about 160 [...]
[COMMENTARY] This Friday is Buy Nothing Day, an informal day of protest by social activists who oppose consumerism. It’s also Black Friday, the start of the holiday shopping season. The name sounds ominous but is meant to be hopeful – we’re talking about black ink, that is, big profits for retailers. These competing media events mark opposing views of [...]
While non-Muslims might see the wearing of the hijab, or veil-like head covering, by Muslim woman as strange or exotic, it is part of a “code of modesty asked of all people, not just Muslims,” said Imam Mohamad Mardini of the Muslim Center in Dearborn. Mardini a prominent Sunni Imam pointed out that most Jews [...]
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