...Protesters had displayed a Confederate flag and a noose. The state representative Sarah Anthony, who is African-American and could hear the yelling demonstrators from inside the House chamber, told me, “Those symbols mean something very, very clear to a Black woman. No one can convince me that the Confederate flag or a noose means something different now. It just felt like, if they had rushed that door, I’d be one of the first to go down.” Anthony was born and raised in La

State Rep. Sarah Anthony, a Democrat who represents Michigan's 68th House District, remembers being in the middle of a meeting when she glanced at her phone and saw a news alert that Biden had chosen Harris. ”I just started tearing up and asked the folks who were in the meeting just to please provide a little grace, because it is so historic,” she said. Anthony, 36, and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, says she was supported "every step of the way" by her sorority sisters durin

On the afternoon of August 4—primary day in Michigan—Slotkin joined her friend, state Rep. Sarah Anthony, on a “contactless canvassing” tour of a south Lansing neighborhood. For an hour, the two masked women walked along shabby sidewalks and across overgrown lawns, toting campaign literature they affixed to doors. In that time, the congresswoman’s human interaction was limited to joking with two children about tying her muddy boots; yelling to a roofer that he should think ab

LANSING – A second man has died after a shooting Monday night at a strip mall in south Lansing, his mother said Wednesday. "With great sadness, I have to announce today that at six o'clock (Tuesday) afternoon. Marcus (Jackson-Burton) was also pronounced dead," Miranda Hinton, Jackson-Burton's mother, said. Hinton spoke at a press conference Wednesday at the Lansing Police Department operations center. She was flanked by family members of both victims, investigators, Lansing