Today on Stateside, the Michigan Senate will meet in a special Saturday session this weekend to make recommendations for school reopenings. We hear from two reporters about what factors lawmakers are considering as they plan for what a return to the classroom could look like this fall. Plus, a Detroit-born journalist discusses how racial profiling and police brutality complicated his relationship with the cars he grew up loving.
(Subscribe to Stateside on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or with this RSS link)
Listen to the full show above or find individual segments below.
MI Senate to consider school reopening bills in rare Saturday session
- Kevin Lavery is a reporter for WKAR.
State lawmakers make moves toward compromise on a package of school reopening bills
- Lauren Gibbons is a political reporter for MLive.
How black pioneers built lives in Michigan before the state was founded
- Anna-Lisa Cox is a historian based in West Michigan and a non-resident fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. She’s the author of The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s Forgotten Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality.
- Angelica Roberts is an artist in Kalamazoo County.
For Black drivers, cars can be both a source of pride and apprehension
- Ron Stodghill, is an award-winning journalist and professor at the University of Missouri. He grew up in Detroit and recently wrote a piece for the New York Times title “Black Behind the Wheel,” that explores how the fear of racial violence changed his relationship to cars.
Cheers! Making a frozen daiquiri at home
- Tammy Coxen is a mixologist and co-author of Cheers to Michigan: A Celebration of Cocktail Culture and Craft Distilleries.
- Lester Graham is a reporter at Michigan Radio and Coxen’s co-author.
