LSA faculty representing a wide range of disciplines and expertise shared some of their recommendations for films on race and racism that are worth adding to your list.
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December 17, 2020
New U-M mural, exhibition by Detroit artist celebrate labor of Black women in America
“Watch Me Work is a celebration of Black Women who get it done! From the event planning Zoom mommy to the USPS mail lady, we work. The world watches and we work. The world turns away, we work. Even those of us who sit around all day and manage to make it to the next day safely, it took work. Through the daily attacks on the pigmented people of the world, we work. We work. We work. I work.”
~ Sydney G. James
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December 9, 2020
Detroit Center Talk: Lisa Nuszkowski, founder of MoGo bike share system
“If I were talking to myself 20 years ago, I would say consider the needs of the community you are trying to serve, versus developing a product or service in a vacuum and then trying to sell people on your idea.”
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December 7, 2020
They just shot a Steven Soderbergh movie at this UM-Dearborn professor’s Detroit house
Dale and Anne Thomson’s Detroit home recently played host to actors Ray Liotta and Benicio Del Toro.
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November 30, 2020
Michigan Minds: How racism-related stress impacts the health of African Americans
What is the toll of racial discrimination on the mental and physical health of young African Americans? In this episode of Michigan Minds, Enrique W. Neblett, Jr., PhD, professor of health…
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November 23, 2020
U-M student named 2021 Rhodes Scholar
Her honors thesis focuses on mutual aid groups in Detroit during COVID-19. Amytess Girgis, who is Iranian and Egyptian, plans a career “amplifying the experiences of the marginalized to rectify past harms.”
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November 23, 2020
U-M, community partners tackle energy insecurity in three Detroit neighborhoods
A new University of Michigan-led project, in partnership with four Detroit community-based organizations, will work with residents of 200 low- and moderate-income households in three Detroit neighborhoods to improve home energy efficiency and to lower monthly utility bills.
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November 20, 2020
Majority of Detroiters say they’re unlikely to get COVID-19 vaccine, U-M survey says
DMACS shows roughly 69% of Detroiters currently view the pandemic as very serious for themselves personally and their community. Previous waves of the survey found nearly all Detroiters are wearing masks, with the latest survey showing 98% of residents wear masks some or all of the time while doing activities outside their homes.
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November 10, 2020
Q&A: U-M Alum R.J. King chronicles Detroit’s earliest manufacturing history
“I wrote the book because nobody had really explained how Detroit had the world’s largest manufacturing economy when the automotive industry started.”
~ R.J. King, UM-Dearborn alumnus
