Sherrema’s Book Reviews

July 18, 2022

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“Kelsey Ronan’s ‘Chevy in the Hole’ is a sobering story of love, crisis, and redemption” https://www.flintside.com/inthenews/chevy-in-the-hole-review.aspx

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Sherrema’s Community Theatre Show Reviews on ‘Flint Stages’

May 5, 2022

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Following are community theatre show reviews I have written with Flint Stages and Editor Kathleen Kirby. To see all reviews by the Flint Stages team, go here. The New McCree Theatre – May 12, 2022Sanctified, written by Javon Johnson Unlikely Angels Upend Tradition and Spark Revival Clio Cast & Crew – February 19, 2022Clio Cast […]

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(Re)Discovering Genesee County: The Fair

November 28, 2021

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Celebrating the author’s hometown of Flint, the seat of Genesee County, Michigan. The morning after my delightful excursion on Mott Lake, I went to the Genesee County Fair (GCF). It had been more than three decades since I was last there as a child of nine-years-old with my brother, parents, their friend, and her children. […]

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(Re)Discovering Genesee County: Mott Lake

August 31, 2021

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Celebrating the author’s hometown of Flint, the county seat of Genesee County, Michigan. On Saturday, August 28, I awoke to gorgeous sunshine and blue skies and knew how I would spend the majority of my day: kayaking. It had been four years since I’d paddled Mott Lake with the Flint River Watershed Coalition. Located in […]

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Thoughts from a Black Girl in a Chaotic World: Has The Church Lost Its Witness?

November 27, 2020

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Written by Roshanda “Shani” Womack,Storyteller, Minister, Community Organizer, Musicianhttp://www.shaniwomack.com/(Notes from a rejected blog post)Posted November 23, 2020Flint, MichiganReposted with permission from the author Honestly, I had planned to write on another topic. But I think back over the past summer, when we witnessed a national and global reawakening to justice for the marginalized. I remember […]

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Flint’s Peaceful Demonstrations Are Rooted in Resilience

June 5, 2020

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This week, Flint, Michigan, known as one of the most dangerous cities in the USA, emerged as a model for peace and unity. In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, a Black man who died at the hands – or knee, as it were – of a white cop in Minneapolis on May […]

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Port Crescent and Back Again: My 2019 New Year’s Eve Solo Retreat at the Dark Sky Preserve

January 4, 2020

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For New Year’s, I decided I would go on solo retreat to, as I told friends, clear out the “flotsam and jetsam” of 2019 and enter 2020 spiritually clear. So on the eve of New Year’s Eve, I went back on Airbnb. It was only my second time to use this wonderful website that is […]

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Stories, Sand, and Stars: Tales of Thanksgiving and a Solo Retreat at a Michigan Dark Sky Preserve

January 4, 2020

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The 2019 Thanksgiving four-day weekend came and on Thanksgiving Thursday, I served at the annual dinner my church hosts for the homeless, and then spent a wonderful evening with friends in Lansing. My friend TY hosted all of us in her new home. TY and I first met in 2009 as foreign lecturers at East […]

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Flint’s 1st Woman Mayor on the Community Journalism Chronicles

May 6, 2018

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As a freelance writer for Flint Beat in November, 2017 ~  A three-article series about Mayor Dr. Karen Weaver on being Flint’s first woman mayor and what it has been like for her to inherit Flint’s ongoing water crisis. “Making History: Flint Mayor Karen Weaver Speaks on the Challenges of Being the City’s First Woman Mayor” http://flintbeat.com/making-history-flints-mayor-karen-weaver-speaks-on-the-challenges-of-being-the-citys-first-woman-leader/ […]

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Flint Jazz, Blues, Theatre, and Neighborhood Gatherings on the Community Journalism Chronicles

May 6, 2018

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I am a former staff writer for Flint, Michigan’s East Village Magazine ~ Below are links to articles I wrote for EVM from August to October, 2017, listed in descending order. An article about the October Flint Planning Commission meeting, in which commissioners heard testimony concerning the legal dispensing of pot in Flint. “Planning Commission begins consideration […]

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