UPDATE: THE DEPORTATION OF MARIE
Despite grassroots attempts to stop it, the Gonzalez family is still set to be deported. With one week left, residents are making a final push to save their neighbors.
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WE REMEMBER LUTHER VANDROSS: April 20, 1951 – July 1, 2005
Grammy-winning R&B icon Luther Vandross, whose distinct tenor powered such classic ballads as “Here and Now” and “If This World Were Mine,” died Friday at John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, NJ He was 54.
COMCAST RECOGNIZES LOCAL STUDENT FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP
Leaders and Achievers™ Scholarship Program awards $1,328,000 in scholarship grants through The Comcast Foundation
The U of M Labor Studies Center held the “2005 Michigan-Midwest Summer School For Women Workers” labor school at MSU
Left: Co-Coordinator Pat Fowler from UAW Local 1248, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Co-Coordinator Willie Paulsen from Michigan State University’s Clerical Technical Union and Coordinator Maurice "Skip" Turner from the University of Michigan Labor Studies Center.
MISS I.B.P.O. ELK OF MICHIGAN 2005
LANSING, MI — The Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World, Silver Leaf Lodge #534/ Capitol City Temple #308, 5334 S. Martin Luther King Blvd. Lansing, Michigan traveled to Pontiac, Michigan for their Annual Michigan State Association Elks Convention, June 14, 2005-June 19, 2005.
Nation’s First Arab American Museum Open’s in Michigan
The Arab American National Museum is located in the City of Dearborn, right across the street from City Hall, on the corner of Neckel and Michigan Avenue.
WRESTLING CHAMPION JOHN CENA MAKES HISTORY
John Cena of World Wrestler Entertainment is having a good year.
TNCP Flashback – People of Cass County Michigan “Underground”
Robert M. Gordon researching “Underground” history in Michigan.
A WORK OF ART : Banyan Gallery Old Town’s Newest Art Gallery is now open
Left: The Banyan Gallery at 1208 Turner St., Old Town, Lansing. Contemporary fine art. Painting, sculpture, glass,
photography and mixed media by Banyan’s twenty-two resident artists. Home and office décor. Hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tue.-Sun. and by appointment. (517) 371-4600.
Below: Artist, Noel Skiba captures the importance of the opening of the gallery on canvas.