Tag: Todd Womack
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Highsmith: Flint “starkly segregated, racially unequal” even in its “drive toward renewal”
By Jan Worth-Nelson This story was updated Jan. 13 to add more of Highsmith’s comments and a link to an EVM review of Demolition Means Progress, available here. At first blush, historian and author Andrew Highsmith told a responsive and appreciative audience of 70 at the Flint Public Library Saturday, the Flint of 1954, when…
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Community Read aims to foster dialogue on lives of African-American youth, community response
By Jan Worth-Nelson A “Community Read” series focused on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ bestselling book Between the World and Me is underway in Flint, with the second of nine discussions scheduled for 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10 at Flint Central Church of the Nazarene, 1261 W Bristol Rd. Coates’ book, written as a letter to…
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