This month Michigan Humanities spoke to Sonya Bernard-Hollins, a Great Michigan Read and Poetry Out Loud partner, about her ongoing work as a journalist, publisher and founder of the Merze Tate Explorers. The Merze Tate Explorers started in Kalamazoo as an initiative...
Michigan Humanities and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs announce that Madison Ganzak, a senior at Roosevelt High School in Wyandotte, is the 2021 Michigan Poetry Out Loud State Champion. Madison’s Poetry Out Loud teachers at Roosevelt High School...
March is Women’s History Month, and to honor this month Michigan Humanities reached out to our 2019 Humanities Grant awardee: The Center for the Arts of Greater Lapeer. The Center has been working on a play titled “It Happened Here: A Story of the Women’s...
Breed & Bootleg: Legends of Flint Rap Music is the new documentary of Dr. Geri Alumit Zeldes, a professor in Michigan State University’s School of Journalism and a long time partner and grantee of Michigan Humanities. We wanted to talk to Geri about her new...
In 2015, the Grand Rapids African American Museum and Archives became a recipient of the Michigan Humanities Heritage Grant. Michigan Humanities wanted to reconnect with George Bayard III and share some of his experiences as a filmmaker and museum director. George is...
Michigan Humanities is pleased to share our conversation with Joseph Cialdella about his new book, Motor City Green, which dives into the history of urban gardening in Detroit. Joe is part of our Board of Directors and Program Lead for Public Scholarship at the...
