First, we heard from a reporter on the fatal shooting of a Black man by Grand Rapids police officers last week. A member of the Grand Rapids City Commission told us about the response from community members and what happens next.
Then, a professor at Wayne State University discussed her new book, Detroit Never Left: Black Space, White Borders, and Latino Crossings, which examines how race and space aren’t separate in southwest Detroit, and never have been.
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GUESTS ON TODAY’S SHOW:
- John Agar, MLive reporter
- Milinda Ysasi, Grand Rapids Second Ward Commissioner
- Nicole E. Trujillo-Pagán, associate professor of Sociology and of Latina/o and Latin American Studies at Wayne State University
