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.
Last week the Virg Bernero campaign for governor released — and then retracted — an announcement that the Lansing mayor had been endorsed by Minister Malik Shabazz, the alleged black separatist leader of the New Black Panther Nation/Marcus Garvey Movement in Detroit. Since then, the issue of which campaign had more involvement with Shabazz has [...]
Shortly after the publication of a blog post about his putative endorsement of Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero last night, Minister Malik Shabazz of the New Black Panther Nation/Marcus Garvey Movement in Detroit called the Messenger to clear up a few things. First, he said, he had not endorsed Bernero for governor; his name on a [...]
Update: The Bernero campaign said shortly after this post appeared that the listing of Malik Shabazz as an endorser was incorrect and that his name had been added to the list of endorsers by mistake. A spokesman said that while they wanted Shabazz’ endorsement, he had not given it. Shabazz then told the Messenger that [...]
MOUNT PLEASANT — A protest to pressure the Isabella County prosecutor to file felony ethnic intimidation charges against a Central Michigan University student who hung four nooses in a campus classroom featured the leader of the New Black Panther Party, Minister Malik Shabazz. The party has been termed a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty [...]
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