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Coping creatively: Jacinta Henry is a songwriter for change

Jacinta Henry started writing songs when she was 14 years old. But she hadn’t written a song in a year until the Feb. 13 shooting on Michigan State University's campus.“We’ve been fighting since we could talk / Been protesting since we could walk,” she sang in front of the crowd at a protest following the shooting.

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'Mean and spiteful': Why former MSUPD employee sued MSU for retaliation

Former MSUPD HR administrator Crystal Perry's lawsuit against MSU argues that her supervisors retaliated against her after she filed racial discrimination complaints to the Office of Institutional Equity. “More than anything, (Perry) truly wants the MSU police department to be a fair and equitable workplace,” her attorney said.