‘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.
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‘I wanted to get my book in the stores I grew up going to’
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.
The complex fears of the gun violence generation
Gen Z activists are trying to get their peers – and the adults who created the gun violence crisis – to hear them out.
‘We lose so many kids’
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.
‘We are survivors of gun violence’
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.
‘Right now they’re crying out.’
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.
Reading the Blueprint intended to end gun violence
NowKalamazoo’s Beyond Bullets project breaks down the new Blueprint for Peace.
A book. A bakery business. Now college.
Inspired by a childhood spent baking with mom and grandma, and a book that stuck with her for a decade, a Kalamazoo teen entrepreneur answered a call for young would-be authors.
The people helping you avoid burnout are burnt out. That’s not good for anyone.
The demand for mental health providers has always outpaced supply. This has only gotten worse over the past few years.
‘There are some things I just don’t have to explain’
In order to get the most from mental health care, patients need counselors who can fully understand them – from language, to culture, to the experiences of members of a marginalized community.
