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Blinded by the White: How Livingston County’s History Impacts it Today

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According to the 2019 US Census, Livingston County is 96.4 % white. Nicole Matthews-Creech,president of the Livingston Diversity Council, said the conversation regarding racism in the county has to change for any progress to be made.  

“People say we don’t have to talk about diversity because we don’t have any, well, I am going to reverse that and say we don’t have any because we don’t talk about it,” said Matthews-Creech.  

Robert E. Miles moved to Howell and eventually settled in Cohoctah Township in the early 1960s. Miles was the Grand Dragon of the Michigan Ku Klux Klan. He hosted cross-burnings on his property and bombed 10 empty school busses in Pontiac days before a court-order was passed to integrate schools on Aug. 30, 1971.

Health

Racial disparities in infant deaths draw attention

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By ANJANA SCHROEDER
Capital News Service
LANSING – While the infant mortality rate in Michigan is one of the highest in the nation, experts say the disparity in racial and ethnic groups is equally alarming. “The clearest issue to us is the huge difference in the health disparity by racial and ethnic groups,” said Paulette Dunbar, the manager of the Maternal, Infant and Family Health section at the Department of Community Health. According to the department, for every 1,000 babies born in Michigan, approximately five Caucasian and seven Hispanic babies die, compared to 14 African American babies who die before their first birthday. The state average is 7.1. Dunbar said in the late 1990s, the department started to identify what groups of residents were contributing to the infant mortality rate more than others.