He Was Imprisoned For A Crime He Didn’t Commit. Now Free, Life Won’t Be Easy to Rebuild.
Chad Clay just moved into a home on the north side of Detroit. For the first time in nearly three...
A Teacher, Lost After 2016 Election, Finds A New Purpose In Gardening
Kathy Peterson says it might look like a night club or a rocket ship. "The lights, the fans, the metal," she...
The Big Effect of A Small Change: Capitalizing the “B” in Black
Many news outlets have historically lowercased terms describing race while capitalizing ethnicities. “Identity and labels are very, very individual and...
The Racist, Segregationist History Behind Dearborn’s Orville Hubbard Statue
For decades, statues of racist historical figures have towered over American cities and towns. Now, many of those statues are being...
Downriver Mental Health Clinic Helps Bartenders, Service Industry Workers
Last week, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer dealt a blow to bars just a few weeks into reopening by issuing an executive...
Whitmer Closes Indoor Seating at Bars in Metro Detroit
A new executive order from Governor Gretchen Whitmer means bars that make more than 70% of their revenue from alcohol...
Detroit Perfume-Maker Says New Scents Will Help Us Move Past Pandemic
If your house smelled like lemon on a Saturday morning, it was a cleaning day. That smell of fresh citrus...
Study Says Economic Recovery Disproportionately Benefitted Wealthier, White Households
The COVID-19 pandemic ended more than a decade of economic growth in the United States. From the end of the...
Detroit East Side Entrepreneurs Were Ready For Business. Then a Pandemic Hit.
Some businesses in the developing East Warren Corridor had been open for less than a year when the COVID-19 pandemic forced...
Detroit Non-Profit Assists Pregnant Women, Mothers During Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused several hardships for young families in Detroit, from unemployment to food insecurity. “We all need...
Fund For Detroit’s Black Farmers Raises Thousands To Generate More Land Ownership
As the country continues to focus on both police brutality and the myriad ways people of color are put at a systemic...
Detroit Police Used Facial Recognition Tech To Falsely Arrest This Man. Now He’s Speaking Out.
Earlier this year, Robert Williams of Farmington Hills, a Black Man, was falsely accused of shoplifting in Detroit back in...
