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December 4, 2025
Minister, socialist and Presidential Candidate Norman Thomas gave a lecture at Fountain Street Church in 1965
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December 3, 2025
Accompanying an immigrant to court: Fear and loathing in West MI
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December 2, 2025
Crain’s Grand Rapids Business story on AmplifyGR omits critical information on the organization’s early years as a creation of the DeVos family
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December 1, 2025
Making sense of the idea to defend the Constitution and refusing orders through a historical lens
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December 1, 2025
GRIID Class: History of US foreign policy since WWII
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November 30, 2025
Deconstructing memes: Is the US Constitution the handbook for anti-fascist resistance?
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November 28, 2025
9 years ago the GRPS Superintendent was praising Betsy DeVos: What is she up to now?
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November 25, 2025
History of US Immigration policy sessions at Fountain Street Church: Part IV
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November 24, 2025
Monitoring the Rich and Powerful in Grand Rapids – Segment #7: DeVos on DeVos, downtown development projects and GR Chamber bedfellows
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November 23, 2025
What ICE terrorism looks like in Grand Rapids and how we can respond to it
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