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Ravendale Community Center Improving the Eastside


This weekend’s outbreak of violence in Detroit is on everyone’s minds.

WDET wants to know what each individual in the area is willing to do the change the equation.

We’re talking with newsmarkers, changemakers and area residents all this week to find out.

WDET’s Rob St. Mary spoke to Toni McIlwain – the president of the Ravendale Community Center on Detroit’s eastside about her center and what can be done on a grassroots level to fight against crime and the conditions that cause it.

(click the audio link above to hear the interview)

For more information on the Ravendale Community Center: http://ravendalecc.org/