Manafort released. But Yusef still locked up. He’s served 25 years. Been in since he was 16. He’s 41 now. Should have been resentenced 5 years ago. Lost 4 friends already to COVID, now running rampant in Michigan prisons. Highest de...
Fed Bletz of Saranac, Michigan, sits in a bamboo cage which is similar to the one Viet Con used to keep prisoners in the Vietnam war May 25, 2003 in Washington, DC. Tens of thousands of motorcyclists from around the country took part in the parade to mark the Memorial Day weekend an...
The reader learns of the beginnings of thePeace Corps( an off the cuff-JFK speech in Michigan), the LBJGreat Societythe inside strategy of theVoting Rights Act,The Civil Rights Actand LBJ’s famous joint session of Congress speech in which Goodwin co-optedMartin Luther King’sWe shall overco...
Robinson nonetheless became the target of rough physical play by opponents (particularly the Cardinals). At one time, he received a seven-inch gash in his leg fromEnos Slaughter.[135]On April 22, 1947, during a game between the Dodgers and thePhiladelphia Phillies, Phillies players and manager...
who fabricated the Mosaic from Zerihun’s paintings was present, and also Art Historian Dr. Ray Silverman from the University of Michigan, to introduce Artist Zerihun, his long-time friend, having introduced his art to America in the 1990’s. Interestingly, from that time, we already had Zeri...
The socioeconomic hardships that result from being trapped in low-income segregated areas with below standard schools, poor services and little hope of escaping financial hardship, and, permanently blocking ex- prisoners from employment opportunities, all enter into a very bleak picture for them, thei...