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Isaiah “Ike” McKinnon on Saturday on “Detroit in Black and White.” Ex-Detroit Police Chief Isaiah “Ike” McKinnon says lifting the residency requirement for Detroit police has hurt the department. “That literally killed us,” McKinnon says during an interview Saturday on the videocast, “Detroit in Black and White,” with host Adolph Mongo and co-hosts […]
JoAnn Chávez ’86, ’90 J.D. was profiled recently in a cover story in Vanguard Law Magazine. Chávez is senior vice president and chief legal officer for DTE, an energy provider and Fortune 250 company based in Detroit. The Vanguard article describes how Chávez has devoted her personal energy to helping Detroit kids succeed. “Resource and […]
On April 12, 1964, Malcolm X delivered his “The Ballot or the Bullet” speech at King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit. “A ballot is like a bullet,” he said, only a few weeks after leaving the Nation of Islam, a Black nationalist and political and religious organization founded in Detroit in 1930. “You don’t throw […]
A protester listens during a rally in Detroit, Thursday, June 4, 2020, over the death of George Floyd, who died May 25 after being restrained by police in Minneapolis. (Paul Sancya/AP) As Detroit moves ahead with a plan to provide reparations to Black residents, a recent survey sheds new light on Detroiters’ perceptions of racial […]
DETROIT, MICH (WXYZ) — The Detroit Historical Museum is located at 5401 Woodward Avenue in the city’s Cultural Center Historic District in Midtown Detroit. It chronicles the history of the Detroit area from cobblestone streets, 19th century stores, the auto assembly line, toy trains, fur trading from the 18th century, and much more. A new, […]
WalletHub study calls Detroit 3rd-deadliest city in US WalletHub, a personal finance website did a study of deadly violence in America and charted Detroit as the third city with the biggest homicide rate problem in the nation behind only Atlanta and Baltimore. DETROIT (FOX 2) – Detroit officials are questioning a new WalletHub study which […]
Detroit Today, Nick Austin Last month, Wayne State University announced its plan to create the Detroit Center for Black Studies as part of its efforts to prioritize faculty and research . . .
The Mellon Foundation awarded a $6 million grant to Wayne State University to launch a cluster hire program that will recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create the Detroit Center for Black Studies. The grant advances Wayne State’s work to build a more inclusive and equitable university by prioritizing faculty and research centered […]
Luke Londo, a spokesperson for the community fund, said the accelerator is meant to be a “proactive solution” to help people improve their financial standing, instead of waiting until someone is denied a loan before they begin a remedial credit-building program. “That intervention is too little, too late,” he said. The funds and coaching are […]
The family of Porter Burks, a Black man fatally shot during an early morning confrontation with Detroit police, is suing the city for $50 million, their lawyer announced Tuesday. Five unnamed officers also are named in the wrongful death lawsuit filed Tuesday by attorney Geoffrey Fieger. It claims gross negligence and assault and battery, among […]