‘I gave a lot of them their first haircut and their last haircut’

After 60 years in business, Carl Buck’s barber’s chair still spins around.

The Creative Endeavor Project gives Kalamazoo area authors a space to promote and sell their books inside the Michigan News Agency, a 76-year-old family-owned bookstore and newsstand.

Gen Z activists are trying to get their peers – and the adults who created the gun violence crisis – to hear them out.

In this month’s Beyond Bullets Interview, Alisa Watkins-Monroe talks about the trauma she sees way before people pick up a gun – and what she and her colleagues are doing to stop it from getting there.

Young people speak candidly about the realities of everyday gun violence in Kalamazoo, shedding light on its distressing prevalence among a generation left powerless to protect themselves.

The Interview: NowKalamazoo talks with Dontray Hemphill about his outreach to protect kids from a racist system and to make choices that will keep them from incarceration.