Leadership culture determined uplifting educated community
Jennifer Leyla Rincones, Detroit, MI. A Latina with a vision to help advocate for all brown and black youth who endure the injustices of the...
Skyward Sprouting Despite American Cultural Miasma
Bomani Kyasa Detroit, MI We are Designed to Benefit from the Fruits of Our Own Labor. Anti-Life forces structure socio-economic conditions to to turn People...
Are You the Three Wise Men?
Donna Reiss, Brownstown Twp , MI. Its Christmas time in Detroit, 1961. I was 3 years old and in the bank line with my Mom....
My skin color doesn’t make me.
Michael Hall, Southfield, MI. I am from Detroit, MI. I am a leader and role model in my community. I aim high with the goals...
White girl minority in black city
Barbara Fought, Jamesville, NY. Faculty The most impacting cultural experience for me related to race was when in the 20s I lived in Detroit, a...
Yes I’m Black no not biracial
David, Detroit, MI. To the cops, I am “white”. To many others I am “not” black. I don’t try to pass and I don’t try...
I try but stereotypes still linger
Anastasia Rogers, Detroit, MI. I am a firm believer that everyone, no matter if you’re a man, woman, or something in between, black, white, Asian,...
No, I don’t sell coke, bro.
Norris Howard Detroit, MI Over 50 people in this bar and you approach the only group of black men and ask them a drug related...
Dark Skin does not equal ugly.
Kiwana Johnston Detroit, MI One of the things I’ve hated hearing the most is, “I didn’t know dark skinned people could be pretty until I...
He thought I shouldn’t be there.
Danielle Hayden Detroit, MI My freshman year of college, a boy at orientation (with whom I had only recently become acquainted told me that the...
Unidentified as gifted, left to languish.
Jenifer Daniels Charlotte, NC As child, I was labeled ‘talkative’ and a ‘trouble maker’…when all along I was really gifted and left to languish.
Conscious and unconscious influence in America
Glenn Oliver Detroit, MI University of Michigan Law We have to figure out how to create a society where people are comfortable living and working...
Construct predictive opportunity healing equal equity
Daniel Varner Detroit, MI The University of Michigan Law
Initially rather tense, but ultimately positive.
Jerome R. Watson Detroit, MI University of Michigan Law
