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The gymnasium at the Baxter Community Center in Grand Rapids started filling up a little before six Monday night. Dinner was provided. Parents and kids…
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It’s not a new story:A young black man dies after an encounter with police. A community takes to the streets to demand answers. Their protest turns…
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The death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown and the resulting chaos in Ferguson, Missouri is an extreme example of the long tail of a racial power…
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We've recently dedicated a fair amount of time on State of Opportunity talking about voices and bias and code switching, so I thought it'd be cool to…
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We know racial segregation exists in our communities. We know this segregation is rooted in history. And yet, sometimes we allow ourselves to believe that…
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This week, the Annie E. Casey Foundation released a national report that caught our eye. The report is part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Kids Count…
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Two related blog posts on technology and opportunity worth highlighting this week come from Tess Rinearson, a software engineer for the blogging platform…
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It seems like everyone has a 'best books' list around this time of year. So we decided to get in on the action. We picked some old books, some new books,…
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My colleague Steve Carmody reported yesterday on a new study looking at the social factors at play in Michigan's higher-than-average infant mortality…
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For a few months now, I've been working on a series about the end of the neighborhood school as most people know it in Detroit . The stories will air next…