Detroit is Different

  • Latest episode: “My Father’s House, Our Community’s Future: John Conyers III Speaks”
  • Latest episode: ““His Story Had to Be Told”: Shushanna Shakur on Chokwe Lumumba, Family, and Revolutionary Memory”
  • Latest episode: “I Remembered I Wanted to Be a Teacher — Mama Nozibele on Love, Legacy, and Black Education”

  • Latest episode: “My Father’s House, Our Community’s Future: John Conyers III Speaks”
  • Latest episode: ““His Story Had to Be Told”: Shushanna Shakur on Chokwe Lumumba, Family, and Revolutionary Memory”
  • Latest episode: “I Remembered I Wanted to Be a Teacher — Mama Nozibele on Love, Legacy, and Black Education”

Bayan Founas is an educator. The Writing 4 Freedom Teen Summer Camp is a vision independently funded and started by Bayan and community support. The Camp takes place at Nandi’s Knowledge Café every Thursday from July 4 pm – 7 pm and is free for all participants. Bayan’s commitment to creativity and camp is her connection to enjoying Summers in the mosque sharing camps with friends and family. This interview explores her interest, passion, and works in social justice and poetry. She shares how being a teacher in Harper Woods was the gateway to her creative voice in spoken word poetry. This is an interview that delves into history deep as well.