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After an underwhelming opening to the NFL season, the Detroit Lions are making news as potential playoff contenders. Meanwhile, in Ann Arbor, Jim Harbaugh is rumored to be leaving the University of Michigan Wolverines to return to the NFL. 

Nick Baumgardner, a senior writer with The Athletic, caught us up on all the football news that's unfolded over the past week. 

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Nick Baumgardner, senior writer, The Athletic

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Santa Ono was appointed as president of the University of Michigan last fall. He came to Ann Arbor from University of British Columbia, where he served as president and vice chancellor. Before that, he served as provost, and then president of the University of Cincinnati.

President Ono stepped into the shoes of Mary Sue Coleman, who served as an interim president following Mark Schlissel’s dismissal in January of last year. At the end of his first semester at the University of Michigan, President Santa Ono joined us to talk about his vision for the year ahead. 

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Santa Ono, president, University of Michigan

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Malcolm X was a son of Lansing, where he spent some of his most formative years before becoming the iconic activist we know of today. So why aren't his the quotes and legacy we teach in Michigan schools or during Black History Month? Today on Stateside, we explore Malcolm X's family history and controversial legacy in the struggle for Black empowerment. 

GUESTS:

John Aerni-Flessner, associate professor for the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University

Kidada Williams, associate professor of African American and American history at Wayne State University

Herb Boyd, Detroit writer, journalist, and activist

This episode originally published on February 7, 2022.

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For decades, the leadership of the United Auto Workers has come from the same group within the union. That changed in a big way with this month’s union elections, where no incumbent leadership was able to secure a win in the organization's competitive races. We talked to Detroit News editor Daniel Howes about what this could mean for the union as the auto industry makes the pivot to electrification. 

GUEST: 

Daniel Howes, senior editor and business columnist for the Detroit News

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Designer Rey Pador has transformed TV touchstones into global fashions for a constellation of brands in Antwerp, Paris, New York and Milan. Rey now calls Detroit home after taking a position with the College for Creative Studies, overseeing apparel design as part of the College’s fashion design department. For Rey, fashion is all about the surprises.

GUEST:

Rey Pador, fashion designer and associate professor at the College for Creative Studies

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COVID has posed a grave threat to our elders these last two years. Even if your family has been lucky enough to dodge the worst, you're probably finding moments with the grandparents in your life that much sweeter. Two Michigan photographers travelled across the country to find some of those moments, taking portraits of grandmothers and archiving their wisdom in the new book, Grandmothers of America.

GUESTS: 

John Hanson, photographer based in Detroit.

Joey Schultz, photographer based in Traverse City.

This episode originally published on January 14, 2022.

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Michigan writer Anne-Marie Oomen chronicles years when her aging mother needed help; a mother who left her flummoxed and angry. The book is called "As Long As I Know You: The Mom Book." Today we talk to Oomen about motherhood, caregiving, and healing.

GUEST:

Anne-Marie Oomen, writer

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Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is one of the most commonly used plastics.  It's found in everything from construction materials, to medical equipment, to clothing. Researchers at the University of Michigan have found a way to repurpose this previously unrecyclable material. They joined us to share their findings, and what it could mean for plastic consumers and manufacturers.

GUESTS:

Anne McNeil, professor of chemistry and macromolecular science and engineering, University of Michigan

Danielle Fagnani, synthetic polymer chemist

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It's hard to imagine a politics and policy debate in Michigan that experienced the kind of whiplash in public sentiment like that of same-sex marriage. In the span of about 15 years, Michiganders went from voting to ban gay marriage, to broadly supporting rights and marriage protections for LGBTQ couples. At the center of the national legal debate was also a couple from Michigan. Today we revisit that brief history on the week that same-sex marriage became federally protected law.

GUEST:

Rick Pluta, Michigan Public Radio Network

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CORRECTION: A previous version of this podcast said voters approved the same-sex marriage ban in 2004 by 85%. That was a transposed number, and incorrect. Voters banned gay marriage by about 58%. 

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Kulintang music, native to several Indigenous tribes in the Southern Philippines, has been passed down as an oral tradition over hundreds of years. That tradition has traveled 8,000 miles overseas, all the way to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Stateside Producer Ronia Cabansag helps tell part of that story. 

GUEST:

Gean Vincent Almendras, Philippine Ensemble Music lecturer, University of Michigan

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