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Detroit Bars Spot Lite and UFO Bar Will Close Later this Month 

The managing partners of two iconic Detroit entertainment venues – one once rumored to be the target of a suspicious plot, another shrouded in suspicion and rumor for nearly...

African-Centered Education Could Ramp Up in Detroit Schools, Superintendent Say

By Aaron Foley, Editor-at-Large  The Detroit Public Schools Community District could expand its African-centered curriculum to more schools beyond the district, its superintendent said at one of...

Welcome to the New Palmer Park, Where the Children are the Future 

Let’s take a moment to set the record straight on Palmer Park.   Because first off, yes, there is a little bit of a double entendre there. And second,...

2026 Hatch Detroit Winner, DIY Craftswoman Trice Clark is Building a New $100K Platform

Anyone with WiFi remembers the collective groans that reverberated across Metro Detroit in April 2024, when the much-ballyhooed “Hollywood sign” that wasn’t made its...

How Detroit NAACP’s Comms Director Takes Care of a 70-year Tradition – and Herself 

Photo Credits:  Ruby Bridges and LaToya Henry: Photographer Andre Smith.  In the span of about 15 minutes on the floor of Huntington Place, LaToya Henry has fielded dozens...

Garlin Gilchrist and the Costs of Suiting Up and Showing Up

Ask an average millennial man how many suits he owns, and unless he works in law, finance, or perhaps mortuary science, the answer is...

Detroit Artists Land Top Knight Fellowships 

Two Detroit-based artisans were awarded one of the art world’s most prestigious fellowships this month, earning a grant that will allow them to perform at the...

Cledie Taylor, Detroit’s ‘First Lady’ of Art Exhibition and Education, Dies at 100 

Cledie Taylor, a pioneering artist, gallerist and educator whose work in amplifying Detroit’s Black artisans and fortifying the city’s scholastic art curriculum, all while cultivating a prolific, multidisciplinary career of her own, has died, according to friends and collaborators in the...

Once A Detroit Teacher, A Leading Environmental Justice Activist Returns with Lessons from the Climate Fight

The students lucky enough to attend Renaissance High School in the years just before and after the new millennium were witnessing a genius in...

Detroit Teens Encouraged to Pursue Skilled Trades During Hands-on Expo

More than 100 Detroit high school students were invited by one of the region’s most prominent construction firms to a live construction site for...

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