Alternative Spartan Breaks (ASB) is a registered student organization offering service trip opportunities for Michigan State University students. They offer spring break trips and weekend experiences throughout both the fall and spring semesters.
Motown was a record label based in Detroit that was a powerhouse of hits in the 1960s and 1970s. Motown musicians, all of whom were Black performers, are often regarded as some of the most influential artists, with impacts that are felt in virtually every genre today. MSU and East Lansing community members reflect on the history and impact of Black music on American culture, and on their own musical journeys.
Chambliss said he's "often trying to recover stories about Black spaces" and people who have been "hidden in the record."
This year marks the 65th anniversary of MSU’s African Studies Center. Located in room 100 in the International Center, the African Studies Center is home to many events and programs that can help students learn more about Africa in a global context.
Students and community members gathered for a Caring Through Service event Thursday to give back to the MSU community on the second anniversary of the campus mass shooting.
His painting is an abstraction of the horror that occurred in just 15 minutes that night. He used colors, shapes and angles to convey the emotion and energy he felt in the classroom.
With the two year anniversary of the MSU shooting approaching, Maya Manuel, a co-curator of the exhibit and MSU alum, knew that she could make a space that students would want to visit and heal in. The exhibit was curated to bring awareness to gun violence and to depict healing through “artivism.”
Running from Feb. 4 to April 30, the exhibition "Techno: The Rise of Detroit’s Machine Music" will be showcased at the MSU Museum. The lead exhibition curator and MSU english professor Julian Chambliss worked with community curator and administrative team member at the Underground Resistance (UR) John Collins to create this exhibit.
The MSU Museum has released a curriculum guide for teaching K-12 students about Detroit’s Black Bottom Neighborhood. The curriculum provides teachers and community leaders with lessons centering physical and oral artifacts that celebrate the neighborhood's people and history.
From now to Feb. 13, the museum will showcase the "Art in the Aftermath: Healing Gun Violence through Activism" exhibition. Consisting of a Soul Box Project and other art pieces, curators hope the space reminds visitors of the community formed after the 2023 campus shooting.
REO Town, just across the highway in Lansing, is a vibrant district of small businesses that uplift one another and the community. From pottery studios, to bookstores, to unique restaurants, REO Town has a variety of things to offer for students that want to venture beyond campus property lines.
The history of Party Hollow has gone largely unrecognized at MSU. But the bizarre tale behind this ordinary patch of land reveals how the university’s "misfits" found community in the middle of the woods.
University students often want to get new things while being on a budget, making secondhand stores the perfect shopping grounds. The Lansing and East Lansing area has a variety of thrift stores for MSU students to explore.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib joined Michigan State University students via Zoom Thursday to discuss pressing issues, including the dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives under the Trump administration and the recent ceasefire in Gaza.
On Monday, Jan. 27, State Rep. Julie Brixie presented a tribute of $125,000 to the MSU Student Food Bank. Brixie presented the tribute and took a tour of the MSU Student Food Bank facilities, located in Olin Health Center. The tribute will go toward efforts to expand their services, as more and more students utilize the food bank each semester.
The East Lansing Public Arts Commission and the Public Art on Campus Committee work to ensure that public art installations are a part of construction or development projects in East Lansing and on MSU's campus. These groups aim to incorporate public art in order to provide a sense of community, provoke thought and elicit emotions.
A new exhibition at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum focuses on food justice and its wide-ranging implications. Looking at the history and impact of agriculture in Michigan, the collection explores "questions of food knowledge, production, scarcity, and consumption."
Through February, the MSU community can give books or monetary donations to the Stuff the Library book drive, which is an effort to put more books that celebrate diversity and represent students of many backgrounds into school libraries.
Students endured below freezing temperatures Thursday night to honor those killed in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war, in light of the recent ceasefire. Over cups of hot chocolate, they painted The Rock with an image of the Palestinian flag and words over it that read "NO JUSTICE NO PEACE."
Daughter of Malcolm X, Ilyasah Shabazz, spoke at MSU's fourth annual Malcolm X Muslim Studies Community Forum on Tuesday. She spoke about her father's legacy and inspiring a new generation of "change-makers."