Passing the Mic: Garfield Park Neighborhoods Association answers, "What are you most proud about in your neighborhood right now?"

Brett Townsend, Community Engagement Specialist at Grand Rapids Community Media Center (CMC), asks Grand Rapids' neighborhood associations: "What are you most proud about in your neighborhood right now?" --- Fran Dalton, neighborhood organizer at Garfield Park Neighborhoods Association, responds, and passes a question on to other neighborhood associations in the city: "In this recent environment with Black Lives Matter and the trend to looking at reallocation or defunding of police, I'm wondering what other neighborhood associations are finding people saying about that?" --- Passing the Mic is a project of CMC that promotes online, community-wide discussion of local issues and topics using the spoken word. Residents are invited to share one to three-minute audio responses to locally-focused questions from fellow neighbors, with questions geared toward all Grand Rapidians or specific communities within the city. Keeping the discussion going, speakers are encouraged to end their responses with their own question related to a local issue or topic -- passing along the opportunity to amplify community voices. Opinions expressed through Passing the Mic are those of the speakers and do not reflect the editorial voice of The Rapidian or CMC. Posted responses are subject to The Rapidian’s Terms of Use, which include adherence to inclusiveness, civility, ethical reporting, proper credit, local emphasis, and open identity (no anonymous posting).