East Lansing Art Festival
Saturday & Sunday in downtown in East Lansing
Click here for a full list of the musical performances (but don’t miss Steppininit, Bop Harvery and Delilah DeWylde & the Lost Boys on Saturday at noon - and yes, that’s my husband Drew Howard on steel guitar)
MI-Funk Fest
Saturday 2 p.m. to midnight in Old Town - Tickets are $25 (fundraiser) - You must be 21 with I.D. to enter
Featuring The Sun Messengers, Global Village, Vallerie Barrymore & Foundation of Funk, Nadir and Soul Xpress.
Malcolm X - The Lost Chapters (Part of Lansing Hip Hop Appreciation Week in honor of the 85th birthday of Malcolm X
MSU Museum
Mandela/Parks Reception 2 - 3 p.m.
Symposium 3 - 5 p.m. with William Alex Haley, Jr., son of the late Alex Haley who contributed to “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” and Gregory J. Reed, who saved the lost chapters of the autobiography from disappearing