But on Monday, April 7, 2025 – standing in front of hundreds of friends, family members, mentors, colleagues, elected officials, and other dignitaries at the Boys & Girls Club of Highland Park– ...

Flint’s students already know what it feels like to be failed by the government. They’ve learned their lessons not just from textbooks, but from poisoned water and underfunded schools. So, when the U.

Under harsh fluorescent lights and a courtroom heavy with silence, John Antonio Poole stood at 18 years old as a judge pronounced life without parole. His face was barely past adolescence, yet the ...

On Monday night, the Detroit City Council closed out a month-long grind with the passage of a $3 billion budget. They revised roughly $36 million of Mayor Mike Duggan’s initial 2025-26 proposal to ...

Forty-three-year-old Representative John James has entered Michigan’s 2026 gubernatorial race. His announcement arrived Monday morning by way of a social media post where he criticized Democratic ...

For generations, owning property has been the clearest path to wealth, stability, and freedom. But let’s be real: not everyone was given equal access to that path. Especially in Black and Brown ...

Passing through Detroit’s Historic North End community, along its many major thoroughfares – Woodward Avenue, East Grand Boulevard, John R, Brush Street, Oakland Avenue, and others –offers a grand ...

Black hair is more than just strands of keratin. The afros, locs, braids, twists, and Bantu knots are a cultural archive, a ...

GameChanger, which is part of DICK’s Sporting Goods, believes that playing sports can have a positive impact on young people’s lives, both in sports and beyond. One of their key programs is NBA Math ...

Cory Booker stood in the U.S. Senate for 25 hours without sitting, eating, or leaving the floor. That choice didn’t come from ego or ambition. It came from a responsibility to people whose voices ...

The USDA defines food deserts as low-income communities where a significant portion of the population lives more than a mile ...

Detroit doesn’t need permission to lead. For decades, labor from this city built industries others only benefited from.