FLINT, Mich. — The Flint Center for Educational Excellence has been awarded nearly $1 million to expand and sustain licensed afterschool and summer learning programs for Flint students as part of a statewide effort to increase access to out-of-school time learning. The Flint-based education nonprofit received $971,850 through Michigan’s 2025–26 Out-of-School Time (32N) Grant, administered […]
Author Archives: Jiquanda Johnson
Flint Beat‘s founder and publisher, Jiquanda Johnson is a Flint-area native with more than 16 years of experience in journalism including print, television and digital media. She has worked for The Detroit News, NBC25, Fox and MLive Media Group/The Flint Journal, where she covered the city of Flint.
As a reporter covering Flint for MLive, Jiquanda discovered that the community needed a news publication focused only on Flint, Mich. Flint Beat was launched on March 13, 2017 to fill that need.
