By EVM Staff Flint’s public library has named Ann Manko its interim executive director, effective July 11, 2025. The Gloria ...

By EVM Staff The Flint City Bucks (8-3-0) secured a spot in the USL League Two (USL2) postseason last night, besting Northern ...

Worth-Nelson The day the orioles showed up in the backyard all other news, it seemed to me, was bad.  I really don’t have to ...

By Daniel Vela In Flint, sitting at the counter or sliding into the booth of a 24-hour diner after a late shift or a crazy night out with friends and enjoying a breakfast spread, a couple coneys, ...

Posted on Dec 10, 2022 By Jan Worth-Nelson with Tom Travis The University of Michigan – Flint is “a beacon of hope” for the Flint community, UMF Chancellor Debasish Dutta declares, and he intends to ...

Posted on Jun 29, 2025 The combined June and July edition of East Village Magazine is now available online! Dive into the latest stories, community updates, and local insights before it hits ...

Posted on Jun 28, 2023 By Paul Rozycki In 1923, Calvin Coolidge became president after Harding’s death, Hitler was arrested in Germany for an attempted coup, Hemingway returned from Paris, publishing ...

Posted on Jun 16, 2021 By Tom Travis The American Academy of Poets has chosen Flint’s Poet Laureate, Semaj Brown, as one of 2021 Poet Laureate Fellows. Brown was chosen along with 22 other Poets ...

Posted on Oct 25, 2021 By Gary Fisher She was nearly half a century old by the time I showed up. Creaky wooden windows, stifling forced heat, so thick you could taste it, zero air conditioning, lead ...

1960s Mississippi? No, 1960s Detroit. During the evening/early-morning hours of July 25-26, 1967 law enforcement officers led by three members of the Detroit Police Department (DPD) terrorized and ...

Posted on Jun 21, 2023 By Robert Thomas Subtitled American Crises (and Essays), Call Them by Their True Names is Rebecca Solnit’s powerful 2018 collection of timely essays. The book’s forward, ...

Viola, Viola lives on in history. –“Color Blind Angel,” Robin Rodgers, 2008 [Author’s note: I was moved to write this personal reflection when my son Justin Ford gifted me a book: From Selma to Sorrow ...