{"id":54,"date":"2023-11-17T23:06:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T23:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/?p=54"},"modified":"2023-12-14T18:43:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T23:43:38","slug":"54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/2023\/11\/17\/54\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs up: Roy Finkenbine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of History and department co-chair&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/people\/university\/clae\/history\/faculty\/roy-finkenbine\">Roy E. Finkenbine<\/a> was interviewed Oct. 12 on <a href=\"https:\/\/wdet.org\/2023\/10\/12\/forgotten-tales-of-the-underground-railroad\/\">WDET\u2019s \u201cDetroit Today\u201d with Stephen Henderson<\/a> about Detroit\u2019s Underground Railroad. <a href=\"https:\/\/wdet.org\/2023\/10\/12\/forgotten-tales-of-the-underground-railroad\/\">Listen to the full interview.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also moderated conversations with two authors of recent Underground Railroad novels: Cynthia Mullen of <em>Hinges<\/em> and Kai Thomas of <em>In The Upper Country<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In September, he presented \u201cLiving in the Jim Crow South\u201d at the Livonia Public Library, in conjunction with the One City, One Book program. He also gave a talk on \u201cThe Improvisational Nature of the Underground Railroad\u201d at the sixth annual Michigan Underground Railroad Heritage Gathering at the Michigan History Center in Lansing, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of History and department co-chair&nbsp;Roy E. Finkenbine was interviewed Oct. 12 on WDET\u2019s \u201cDetroit Today\u201d with Stephen Henderson about Detroit\u2019s Underground Railroad. Listen to the full interview. He also moderated conversations with two authors of recent Underground Railroad novels: Cynthia Mullen of Hinges and Kai Thomas of In The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}