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The park at Sleeping Bear Dunes was once an existential threat to the people living there

Lexi Krupp

A popular Senator named Philip Hart had a dream to create a national park in the dunes of northern Michigan. But when he proposed the plan in 1961, it…

Northern Michigan

Points North: The fight over Sleeping Bear Dunes

Lexi Krupp

Sleeping Bear Dunes turns 50 this month. It’s a destination that brings well over a million visitors to the dunes along Lake Michigan every year. But it…

Michigan Arts & Culture

Painter aims to capture superhero powers of the N-Word

Stateside Staff

The "N-word" probably gets you thinking about the racial epithet that's been used for centuries like a club against black people. Renowned painter...

Shannon Gibney says thanks to adoptee activism, awareness of the challenges of transracial adoptions has changed since she was adopted as a child.

Michigan Arts & Culture

New novel follows young, biracial adoptee's journey of self-discovery

Stateside Staff

Writer Shannon Gibney tackles some very sensitive and emotional subjects in her new young adult novel See No Color. First, she speaks to us with the...

Since 1980, the number of black professors in America has risen from 4.1% to around 5%

Michigan Education

MSU students tackling stereotypes with “Bias Buster” guides

Ryan Grimes

How do we break down stereotypes about each other? That question has driven a Michigan State University journalism class to create a series of guides to...