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African American Culture

Muskegon Students Embark on Life-Changing Journey to Africa Joined by County Clerk, Circuit Court Judge, and Family Division Judge

County Clerk Karen Buie, Judge Annette Smedley & Judge Jenny McNeill to travel with kids to Africa Muskegon, MI - June 23, 2024 – The Class of 2024 from Muskegon's Kids Free Trip to Africa program is set to depart this Thursday for an extraordinary educational journey to Ghana. This year’s trip will be notably special as three esteemed elected officials, Author Tracee Bruce, and Muskegon Heights Teacher Sharlundra Ellis will join the students. Muskegon County Clerk Karen Buie, Muskegon […]

todayJune 23, 2024 2

African American Culture

“JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH” Special Screening with Fred Hampton Jr.

“The late Fred Hampton is the subject of the movie, “JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH” and for us to be able to secure his son, Fred Hampton Jr.  For a VIRTUAL TALKBACK with our Muskegon audience Friday night after the movie is a big deal. This is the opening night of the film and there are screenings happening at the same time all over the country and yet he’ll be with us.”-  WUVS’ Paul Allen Billings JUDAS AND THE BLACK […]

todayFebruary 11, 2021

African American Culture

Disgraced Police Officer Charles Anderson and Officer Scott Zonnebelt are more likely to arrest Blacks than any other race according to their arrest records.

It was on August 7th, 2019 that Rob Mathis, a U.S. Army veteran who was born and raised in Detroit took to Facebook a chilling experience he and his family had in the home of Muskegon officer Charles Anderson. Rob Mathis posted on Facebook that he and his wife saw Confederate flags in the house and garage, and a framed “Application for citizenship” to the Ku Klux Klan on a wall in a bedroom. Mathis posted a picture of the […]

todaySeptember 4, 2019

Local Government

Terry Sabo Announces His Candidacy For The 92nd District

By: Emily Guiles On the steps of the Muskegon County Justice building on Dec 12th 2015, Terry Sabo, Muskegon’s Chairman of Commissioners announced his candidacy for the 92nd district on the State level. Sabo hopes to work tirelessly in order to bring more importance back to Muskegon regarding the State. In his announcement speech Sabo stated that he felt that, “this position has sought me, I have not sought it,”. After working in the Muskegon and Muskegon Heights city governments […]

todayDecember 12, 2015

Community Events

The BEAT Awards

By: Emily Guiles Don't forget to vote! Get your tickets now! The 2015 Beat Awards are right around the corner, November 21st  6pm at the Holiday Inn Ballroom. You can vote for your choice to win until November 18th, you can vote once every 8 hours. The Beat Awards this year will be sponsored by Frontier Communications, and Mercy Health and will be hosted by Actor Fonzworth Bentley The categories and finalists are:   Best Coach Terrance Stewart Johnny Lang […]

todayOctober 31, 2015 1

Community Events

The Fundamentals of Animal Testing

By: Emily Guiles Animal testing has a large history and it has only been in recent years that organizations have started to take a stand against it. For Cara Moon this started at Northern Biomedical facility that used to be located on Sherman Blvd. and is now located on Pontaluna Dr. Moon is the leader of an organization against animal testing called Stop Animal Exploitation Now or S.A.E.N. for short. Moon organized protests at the prior Sherman facility in 2009 […]

todaySeptember 30, 2015 2

Community Events

July 28th Muskegon City Council Meeting

By: Emily Guiles The Muskegon City Council met on July 28th and on the agenda was discussion to buy new police cruisers, and a resolution in support of the new parking strategy. Regarding the new police cruisers, the council moved to approve the purchase of three Chevy Caprice cruisers from Berger Chevrolet, which is the Mi-Deal contract holder. The total purchase price of these three new vehicles would be 84,993 dollars, which is coming out of the equipment budget. The […]

todayJuly 30, 2015

Community Events

July 27th Muskegon Heights City Council

By:Emily Guiles On July 27th Muskegon Heights City Council meeting took place and there was no old business to discuss but plenty of new business. To start with there was a recommendation from the committee of the whole that council amend the zoning ordinance to remove medical marijuana dispensaries as a special land use permitted in C-4 districts and to allow them in the overlay district as presented with a special use permit. There was a motion by councilwoman McGlothin […]

todayJuly 28, 2015

Community Events

Watch Muskegon Heights Go

By: Emily Guiles   On the 13th of July the Muskegon Heights council meeting took place to address two orders of new business and hear some of the citizens present speak. The first order of new business was discussing the eight thousand dollars needed to go towards new road signs and restriping the roads themselves. According to the council the roads have not been restriped since the early 2000’s, a motion to allot the eight thousand dollars in repairs was […]

todayJuly 18, 2015 2