Local Links in Michigan...

Absolute Michigan - All Michigan, All the Time

Main Street Calumet: Economic recovery through historic preservation. Visit the website at http://www.mainstreetcalumet.com/

Miskwabik Ed Gray Studio and Gallery. http://www.edgraygallery.com/

Book Festivals and Book News...

Librarians, publishers, authors at NJ2009 book festival
http://tinyurl.com/mkvvqg

On Writing...

The Poetry Center of Chicago
http://www.poetrycenter.org/node/26/

Poetry Foundation
A wide-ranging resource for readers and writers. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/

On China...

An Interior Ellis Island: Ethnic Diversity and the Peopling of the Copper Country
http://ethnicity.lib.mtu.edu/groups_Chinese.html

 

FRONTLINE presents
Young & Restless in China
Tuesday, June 17, 2008, from 9 to 11 P.M. ET on PBS WNET/Channel 13
Check Your Local Listings
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/youngchina/

On Adoption and Family...

NPR Interviews

Growing Up Black in a White Family
June 3, 2008 - Aaron Stigger personifies colorblind adoption.
He's an African-American man adopted as a young child into a
white family in the Chicago area. He reflects on what it means
to be part of a transracial family.
http://www.publicradiomail.org/ct/s1s_3Yd1U4v3/

'Colorblind' Adoption Scrutinized
June 3, 2008 - Adoptive parents shouldn't choose their children
based on their race, but a new report suggests that colorblind
adoption can be problematic. Does race really matter when it
comes to adoption? For more, Farai Chideya speaks with Hollee McGinnis, policy director for the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, the agency that released the new report. http://www.publicradiomail.org/ct/wps_3Yd1U4vx/