Racism Against Minorities Is Keeping America Back
The United States is in the midst of a collective reckoning of the systemic racism that has plagued the country for...
Protestors March for Change, But Lansing Lawmakers Offer Little
Hundreds of protesters marched on Lansing two weeks ago at an NAACP-sponsored protest. The next day, state lawmakers in the...
Policing Is Just the Start of Reforming Criminal Justice
As protests across the country continue, calls to defund the police continue to be amplified. Many Americans are now pushing...
Michigan Chief Justice: State Could Lead in Criminal Justice Reform
As the state begins to open back up during the pandemic, courts are also grappling with how to resume cases....
Remembering Aimee Stephens, the Transgender Woman Behind Supreme Court Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that gay, lesbian and transgender employees cannot be fired solely based on their gender...
Detroit Police Say Community Relations Are Strong. That Hasn’t Always Been True.
The relationship between Detroit residents and the city’s police department has a complicated history. That relationship has been highlighted in recent...
A Monument to Malice Green Rises in Highland Park
At the corner of Hamilton and Puritan Avenue in Highland Park, Sydney G. James is painting a 3,500-square-foot mural on...
Detroit Entrepreneurs Launch Michigan Fields, Fresh Food Delivery Service
Two Detroit entrepreneurs have teamed to take food insecurity during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Michigan Fields supports Michigan farmers as well...
Juneteenth, No Longer in the Shadows of American History
City of Detroit Juneteenth, the annual cultural celebration honoring the day in 1865 when Black people in Galveston, Texas learned of their...
After SCOTUS Decision, Long Road Ahead for Dreamers
Hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought here as children won a major victory yesterday in the Supreme Court. “It...
Bringing Black Men Together This Juneteenth
Today is Juneteenth. It’s the oldest national celebration commemorating the day the last freedmen were informed of their emancipation — five...
Michigan Unemployment Officials Search for Fraud, Ensnaring Claimants
Michigan unemployment officials continue sifting through claims searching for potential fraud. The state recently suspended hundreds of thousands of unemployment...