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Malad Elementary School hosted an ‘Invention Convention’ for local students to show off their technical problem solving skills.

Jean Ledwith King is not a household name. But she was a force in changing the rules and culture around gender equity, in Michigan and across the country.

Washtenaw United: 03/15/21 WEMU has partnered with the United Way of Washtenaw County to explore the people, organizations, and institutions creating opportunity and equity in our area.  And, as part of this ongoing series, you’ll also hear from the people benefiting and growing from the investments being made in the areas of our community where there are gaps in available services.  It is a community voice.  It is Washtenaw United.    ABOUT ALMA WHEELER SMITH: Alma Smith served in the...

The story of Albert Wheeler, Ann Arbor’s first and only Black mayor Updated Feb 28, 2021; Posted Feb 28, 2021 Albert Wheeler at his desk at the University of Michigan in November 1968, seven years before he would become Ann Arbors first Black mayor.Ann Arbor News archives courtesy of OldNews.AADL.org Facebook Share ANN ARBOR, MI — The elections that catapulted Albert Wheeler into the Ann Arbor mayor’s office in 1975 and led to his ouster three years later were nothing short of unusual. ...

7:57 Hear a profile of former U of M professor and Ann Arbor mayor Albert Wheeler. Also, Dr. Adrianne Haggins discusses challenges Black medical school students and doctors face today. This story is part of a Michigan Radio series for Black History Month on Black Michiganders who made contributions to science and medicine. Albert Wheeler understood that in order to succeed in science and medicine, Black people needed access to quality education. Originally from Missouri, Wheeler arrived in Ann ...

But institutional racism isn’t an attitude, or a policy; it’s an outcome. To diminish it and ultimately eradicate it, we first have to measure it. So we’re asking leaders in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties to undertake an extraordinary effort: Gather the data necessary to document, and quantify, the racial inequities that infect each county’s criminal justice system, following the example of civic leaders in Washtenaw County. The dedicated and methodical group of grassroots activist...

the candidate says shell take a lie detector test. were putting both sides arguments to a fact check. and later, closing arguments in the crime trial thats rev etted the country, the connecticut home invasion horror. a woman and her two daughters held captive and killed at home. two men charged facing death. well show you what happened in court today and what happened in the home when the robbery turned deadly. we begin though tonight keeping them honest with new developments in what i...

the crime trial thats rev etted the country, the connecticut home invasion horror. a woman and her two daughters held captive and killed at home. two men charged facing death. well show you what happened in court today and what happened in the home when the robbery turned deadly. we begin though tonight keeping them honest with new developments in what is the strangest story weve been following in a long, long time, the case of an assistant attorney general in michigan who for a month ...