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Michigan
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Michigan is still home to one of the most extreme human containment systems in the United States. Its prison population has increased by 450 percent since 1973, and the state maintains a higher rate of imprisonment than most countries. African Americans are the largest incarcerated group by far in Michigan, with a total population of 14 percent and a penal population of 49 percent. Latinos and Native Americans are incarcerated in Michigan at rates equal to their population percentage. However, w
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― Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
― Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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This couldn’t be just a lake. No real water was ever blue like that. A light breeze stirred the pin-cherry tree beside the window, ruffled the feathers of a fat sea gull promenading on the pink rocks below. The breeze was full of evergreen spice.
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― Mystery at Laughing Water
― Mystery at Laughing Water
Michigan Volumes is a radio show and podcast about Michigan authors and Michigan books. This gro…more
14 members,
last active 10 years ago
This is a book club for (cool) twenty somethings in the Ann Arbor area who enjoy reading and bru…more
6 members,
last active 11 years ago
Urban fiction & AA authors. This group will feature the urban authors from Flint, Michigan but i…more
127 members,
last active 8 years ago
Tight knit Michigan book club also includes members not in or from Michigan.
2 members,
last active 15 years ago