Before senior Ian Dupre takes a shot, he touches the barrel of his Perazzi shotgun to a pad and wiggles his feet. When he’s ready, he puts the gun to his shoulder and leans in. “Pull.” Within a seventh of a second, he aims and shoots at a target hurdling at 70 miles an hour....
Three hours into his graveyard shift at the Jonesville Wal-Mart, Sage Snoes, 23, gets 15 minutes for a coffee and two cigarettes. “I can ring you up if you’re ready,” a blonde cashier named Lena said. “… Unless you want Sage.” “Does that happen a lot?” “Yeah,” she said. Nearby, a young couple who had...
Once-thriving black communities were deteriorating. And Ida B. Wells was witnessing it. The South’s counterrevolution, the fading importance of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and the 1893 economic depression turned booming postbellum neighborhoods into ghettos and reignited racial hostility that motivated hundreds of lynchings. Wells burst into this scene during the 1890s with industrious investigative journalism covering...
Only one statue of a woman stands on Hillsdale College’s Liberty Walk, and she’s an honorary American citizen making bronzy eyes at Ronald Reagan from across the quad. It’s as if the walk forgot the influential women who fought fiercely for liberty with pamphlets, pens, petitions, and parades right here in the United States. But...
About 91 percent of more than 500 students surveyed said they would use an Uber-style service, the international business club Enactus discovered after polling campus Jan. 31. Within the next two weeks, Enactus members said the club plans to introduce its ride-sharing service — operated by students for students — to campus with the launch...