Nazi organizer Richard Spencer is coming to Michigan at the beginning of March. Two days of coordinated events—the first in metro Detroit, the second at Michigan State University—have been planned for Sunday, March 4 and Monday, March 5. The announcement on the website of the alt-right front group “Foundation for the Marketplace of Ideas,” which…

An Interview with Frank B. Wilderson III, conducted by The Killer Bs (Jared Ball, Todd Steven Burroughs, and Hate) Jared Ball: We want to start with a question that was posed to you during a Q&A at which we were present. Someone asked you a question about police brutality. You said, “I’m not against police…

This Wednesday (February 7) will be the first meeting of a newly established subcommittee of the Planning Commission. It will convene in the downstairs (basement) gallery at Riverside Arts Center at 7 p.m. The Citizen Committee will review and update the City of Ypsilanti’s 2013 Master Plan with a focus on preserving and enhancing housing…

On December 10, 2017, William “Daris” Marshall was stopped by Westland cops who allege they found drugs in his vehicle. He was arrested and taken to jail where he suffered a medical emergency. According to Juston Delaforce, who was being held in the same cell, “Marshall was telling them ‘I’m having a seizure, I’m having…

These pages are for the deranged, individuals not submerged in habit, regimented by protocol or banalized by identity, who refuse to be controlled, “facilitated” or herded into numerically-oriented deadlines. They want to encounter those who can still raise their voices and howl with joy in a subdued world where the ironic smirk of the all-knowing…

Early this month, in the days after Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said he’d be moving forward with a plan to require thousands of Detroit businesses to buy into a costly surveillance program intended to reduce crime, a sponsored post that looked favorably upon the program appeared at the top of our Facebook timeline. The linked…

[Editor’s note: sixteen-year-old Palestinian rebel Ahed Tamimi was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers this week. What follows is Justin King’s 2015 account of meeting her.] The first time I saw Ahed Tamimi she was unarmed and screaming at an Israeli soldier on a dirty road. At one point, the soldier threw a concussion grenade. While many around…

Currently, 2017 is on track to becoming just as deadly a year in terms of the police killing of American citizens as 2016, and the numbers aren’t pretty. According to the police monitoring website, Killed by Police, as of December 19th, 2017, 1,142 people have been killed by American law enforcement since January 1st, 2017. This is compared to…

Need to move hearts and blow minds this xmas? Send your comrades the link to the amazing first episode of Hey There Lonely Girl, featuring deejays La Garza, Eastside Xicana, and Lonely Girl. Brought to you by Oakland’s Lower Grand Radio!

Really cool to see Rebekah Modrak take the baton from Keep Ypsi Black and carry on with the critique of the colonial mission of lifestyle brand Shinola. Be sure to check out Modrak’s excellent intervention: Rethink Shinola.