The Obsidian Theatre Virtual Festival Uplifts Underrepresented Voices Through Art, Honors Diversity of Black Stories
At the core of the Obsidian Theatre Festival is the desire to amplify the diversity of Black stories across the...
Detroit Documentary Photographer Shares the Narrative that Fuels Her Art
Courtney Wise Randolph writes about Detroit's movers and shakers for Detour Detroit. Once a month, she stops by CultureShift to...
Meet Effa Manley, the First and Only Woman Inducted Into the National Baseball Hall of Fame
The existence of the Negro Leagues not only created space for Black players to rise in the game of baseball....
“In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience” Unfolds Helen Knott’s Route to Recovery and Healing
Tenille Campbell Within the opening pages of "In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience," Helen Knott, an Indigenous poet and...
“Dual Vision” at MOCAD Puts Detroit Artists From Across Generations In The Same Room
COVID-19 has shifted the nature of collaboration, but it hasn’t made it impossible. That reality is demonstrated in the exhibition...
Georgina Lawton’s Memoir ‘Raceless’ Examines How Racial Identity is Constructed
It was a DNA test that flipped Georgina Lawton's world upside down. A year after her father passed away from cancer,...
The Motown Musician Accelerator Is Looking To Support the Next Wave of Detroit Musicians
The latest round of the Motown Musician Accelerator initiative is now accepting applications. The 12-week intensive program is catered to...
At One of Detroit’s Oldest Art Institutions, A First — An All-Black Group Exhibition
When the writer and philosopher W.E.B DuBois wrote “The Souls of Black Folk” in 1903, his observations of being Black...
How Do We Talk About Fat Discrimination? Author Aubrey Gordon Has An Idea
It’s time to have a real and intentional conversation about fat, the look of real body-positive advocacy and the stigmas...
Detroit Poets Reflect on Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman “Stepping Into Her Moment”
At just 22-years-old, Amanda Gorman is putting poetry in the spotlight. She stole the show at President Joe Biden’s inauguration...
New Exhibit at MOCAD Invites You To Take Black Contemporary Art Off The Shelf
Where Asmaa Walton saw an opportunity to fill in a blindspot, she took it -- by building a project that...
Manipulated and Manufactured: A Veteran Journalist Talks Identifying “Fake News” and Gaining Trust
As humans, we love being “in the know” and sharing what we know -- or think we know. What has...