The combined June and July edition of East Village Magazine is now available online! Dive into the latest stories, community ...

By Harold C. Ford On June 12, 2025, the International Center of Greater Flint (ICGF) revealed the findings of its roughly ...

By EVM Staff While Juneteenth has been recognized as a federal holiday for just four years, it’s been a celebrated tradition in Flint for over 50. If you haven’t yet made plans – or if you’d like ...

Posted on Jun 16, 2021 By Tom Travis The American Academy of Poets has chosen Flint’s Poet Laureate, Semaj Brown, as one of 2021 Poet Laureate Fellows. Brown was chosen along with 22 other Poets ...

The Central High School Years, 1923-1931 For its first decade Flint Junior College was meant to give Flint students the first two years of a University of Michigan-Ann Arbor degree. The courses and ...

Posted on Dec 10, 2022 By Jan Worth-Nelson with Tom Travis The University of Michigan – Flint is “a beacon of hope” for the Flint community, UMF Chancellor Debasish Dutta declares, and he intends to ...

Posted on Jun 21, 2023 By Robert Thomas Subtitled American Crises (and Essays), Call Them by Their True Names is Rebecca Solnit’s powerful 2018 collection of timely essays. The book’s forward, ...

I worked for the custodians, Mr. Turner and Mr. Clark, helping to set up the lunch room in the gym for the huge groups of kids who dined there, “compensated’ in free lunches, and the opportunity to ...

Final Note: If you plan to see “Detroit” at the movie house, run, do not walk as it’s disappearing quickly from the big screens. The Algiers Motel Incident is still widely available. It sold over a ...

By Teddy Robertson You may wonder why I need a phrase book he travels to us, after all— unbidden on the screen. He comes with simple words, monosyllables from happy times with little ones huge great ...