Our 2017-18 Great Michigan Read authors both visited Michigan in October 2017. Kekla Magoon visited the western side of Michigan and Ilyasah Shabazz visited SE Michigan. Thank you to both authors, our host locations, our partners and sponsors who help us make GMR...
Friday, October 13, 2017 7:00 – 8:30 pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm) Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History 315 East Warren Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201 Great Michigan Read Author Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, will discuss “X: A Novel” at 7:00...
The proposed federal budget calls for elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities — and in turn, the Michigan Humanities. With one decision, 50 years of essential federal-state-local partnerships in Michigan and throughout the nation and its territories...
Today, MH is proudly joining the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) and their partners in acknowledging a National Day of Racial Healing. The day is part of WKKF’s larger Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation effort, intended to plan for and bring about...
There are common elements of military service reaching back from Iraq and Afghanistan to the Second World War and beyond. In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus returns home from the Trojan War to find his wife no longer recognizes him. How true this is in our era of repeated...
The Michigan Humanities (MH) is pleased to announce $274,575 in grants to 24 Michigan organizations in support of public humanities programming. In addition to this direct support, each agency was required to present matching cash or in-kind cost share, bringing an...
