Detroit’s Major Museums To Reopen on July 10th
Detroit’s major museums have announced plans to re-open their doors to patrons on Friday, July 10th. The Detroit Institute of...
Detroit’s Major Museums To Reopen on July 10th
Detroit’s major museums have announced plans to re-open their doors to patrons on Friday, July 10th. The Detroit Institute of...
Parents Going Back to Work After Pandemic Peak Struggle to Find Child Care
The coronavirus pandemic has put a strain on the nation's child care system. Many providers had to close due to...
“Black Lives Matter” At A Church In Gentrifying Corktown Neighborhood
On the corner of Michigan and Trumbull in the city’s Corktown neighborhood, St. Peter's Episcopal Church is practicing “radical hospitality.”...
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,...
