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May 2006 News

Flint Star: Economic Hardships of Flint

Published: May 25, 2006

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This week I’ve mentioned the economic hardships of growing up in Flint, but I’ve received some emails reminding me that I’ve failed to provide you with stats to back this up. According to a 2000 census, 124,943 people live in Flint, it has an unemployment rate of 12.9% and 18,832,000 residents don’t have a diploma [...]


Flint Star: The Greatest Player From Flint You’ve Never Heard Of

Published: May 24, 2006

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A lot of basketball fans are familiar with names like Morris Peterson, Mateen Cleaves, Charlie Bell, Eddie Robinson, Glen Rice and Latrell Sprewell, but there are lots of amazing basketball players from Flint that basketball fans haven’t heard of.
As most hoop fans know, basketball is full of stories about great playground players or high school [...]


Flint Star: The Movie

Published: May 22, 2006

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Earlier this month I was given a copy of the basketball documentary Flint Star by it’s director Marcus Davenport to view and then write about on Hoops Addict. When Marcus first approached me about writing about his documentary I was hesitant at because aside from Hoop Dreams there haven’t been any basketball documentaries that have [...]


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