Former Gubernatorial Candidate Abdul El-Sayed On Policing and Public Health
A number of local governments in Michigan and across the country have declared racism a public health crisis. The move...
During Black Lives Matter Movement, Protest Art Can Be the Needle That Threads Change
Artist Nina Simone said that it is an artists’ duty to reflect the times they live in. This resonates in the current era of socio-political unrest. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“Deacon King Kong” Author James McBride on the Music That Changed His Life
Ryan Patrick Hooper It was a certain "hump and swing" that came through in gospel music that captivated James McBride,...
Detroit Expands Juneteenth Celebrations, Quicken Loans Makes it a Paid Holiday
City of Detroit In the midst of weeks of civil rights marches across the nation and calls to defund the...
What A World Without, Or With Different, Police Looks Like
Nationwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism are now in their third week. Activists' call to defund the police...
Detroit Block Club President Wants More Police Funding, Reform
In Minneapolis, after protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, the city council announced that it would be defunding its...
