Video Essays & Interview Podcasts
Nov. 12, 2025
Flint Community Schools (ft Norm Bryant)
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Norman Bryant is a former President of Flint Board of Education. At 85 years of age, he shares the history of the Flint Community Schools and high school athletics.
Norm is the founder of the Flint African Americ…
Nov. 12, 2025
Joel Feick: Life After Television
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Local news anchor Joel Feick stepped down from local television news after 35 years. He left familiar seat as "The People's News Anchor". Joel shares stories about his life as a reporter. In this podcast, Joel sha…
Nov. 12, 2025
Prep School Transfers Impact Flint Prep Hoops and Culture
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Flint, Michigan, has long been touted as a hotbed for high school basketball. Indeed, Flint has produced some of the top basketball talents in the nation. Many Flint athletes are playing in the National Basketball …
Nov. 12, 2025
Emily Doerr: What Can Be Done To Fix Flint's Schools?
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Emily Doerr is a candidate for the Flint Community Schools Board of Education. The election will be on November 8, 2022. She joined a slate of four other individuals running to serve the Flint Community Schools. Th…
Jan. 5, 2023
Fly Away Home Snowbird
A snowbird is a person who migrates from a colder climate to a warmer place, typically in the southern United States, for the winter months. Many snowbirds are retirees who own homes in both the colder and warmer locations and alternate between the two places to escape the harsh winter weather. Sno…
Jan. 4, 2023
Electronic Drone Musician Hauras: A Song for Flint
Our guest is musician Howard Ryan, a native of Wisconsin who now lives in San Francisco, California. Ryan, also known as Hauras composed a song, "Flint, Michigan," intending to make a social statement about the problems of the beleaguered rust belt city.
Ryan is a musician and composer who is kno…
Aug. 10, 2022
The Flint Water Crisis with Author Anna Clark Part Two
In The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy, Anna Clark examines what happened to poison the water in Flint, Michigan. She digs into the public policies that need reform and drinking water policy decisions by the Flint and Michigan governments.
Anna Clark lives in Detroit.…
July 9, 2022
Johnny Cash & Flint the Country Music Capitol of the North@ RadioFreeFlint
Johnny Cash and the Carter sisters were loved performing in Flint, Michigan. The fans in Flint were largely southern migrants who came to work in the Flint auto factories.
Dave Norris, former WKMF Broadcaster and long-time friend of the Carter & Cash families, recounts a wild story about Johnny…
July 7, 2022
Bud and Me. Turtles, Grass Lake and My Michigan Neighborhood
On a recent walk in Ogemaw, County, Michigan I discovered Bud. he is a turtle. the lake side is his home as is mine.
In May and June, we in Michigan experience these ancient creatures ending up on the road. often with deadly results.
July 3, 2022
The Flint Water Crisis: Contaminated Drinking Water Part 1
Video Podcast: Part 1 of 3 Episodes
The Flint Water Crisis has what many prosecutor's find in a racketeering case: cover-ups, purposeful law breaking to reap more profits, shadowy backroom deals that make absolutely no sense. Poisoning the drinking water supply of an American city is unthinkable. …
June 27, 2022
Songwriter Bluesman Matt McDermaid and a Hometown Song
Songwriter and bluesman Matt McDermaid is one of many songwriters to put Flint, Michigan in the title of their songs. We interviewed him about his song "The Flint City Blues" a hometown song. We explore why and what Flint, Michigan means to him, then and today. Matt first performed music at St. Joh…
June 22, 2022
The First Internet Murder: A Love Triangle and a Computer
This century, the Sharee Miller case is one of Michigan's most notable true crime murder cases.
This case is believed to be one of the first internet murder trials in America. The love triangle that Ms. Miller fostered with a police officer resulted in the death of her husband, Bruce Miller. The…