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The Washtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Development wants to help women and minority-owned general contractors get more business. WEMU’s Kevin Meerschaert has this report.
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The celebration will run from 11am-3pm Sunday on the Southeast side of Gallup Park. As WEMU's Taylor Bowie reports, it will feature educational programming on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Understanding individually how we process the world around us is the best way to get to the underlying factors contributing to inequity in our lives. On Friday, May 17th, the United Way for Southeastern Michigan will launch the 21-Day Equity Challenge, and it's open to everyone in the community. WEMU's David Fair spoke with the UWSEM's senior director for diversity, equity and inclusion, Andre Ebron, about the program and its impacts.
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The topic of campus protests created tension Thursday in the state Senate as lawmakers debated the state’s next higher education budget. Colin Jackson has more.
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Washtenaw County’s Racial Equity Office is holding a series of "Lunch and Learn" programs that will run through the rest of the year. WEMU’s Kevin Meerschaert has this report.
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A county official has been appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court’s commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. WEMU’s Taylor Bowie has more.
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When a new academic year starts in the fall, the Lincoln Consolidated Schools will begin celebrating its 100-year anniversary, and the preparations are already underway. Such occasions are a good time to reflect and look ahead. WEMU's David Fair does exactly that with the district's superintendent, Robert Jansen.
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2024 will be a special year in Ann Arbor, as the city celebrates its bicentennial. When it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion, how far has Ann Arbor come in 200 years? What is the work that needs to be done in the new year and for future generations? WEMU's David Fair went to Ann Arbor city administrator Milton Dohoney Jr. for answers.
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When we talk about creating more equity and opportunity in our community, we may not always be as inclusive as we think we are. For many in the intellectual and developmental disability community, they have no voice at all. Who helps give them a voice and life choices? It's the Washtenaw Association for Community Advocacy. WEMU's David Fair is joined by the association's president and CEO, Kathy Homan, to explore what a tremendous difference it can make to have allies help gain measures of self-determination.
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Washtenaw County’s own Alize Asberry Payne has been recognized as a local leader in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. WEMU’s Taylor Bowie has more.