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Paid Summer Arts Jobs Open for 200 Detroit Teens

Caption: High School participants in Live Coal's 2025 SAET program. Photo Credit: Live Coal

For These Black Muslim Women, Ramadan is About Faith, Tradition and Sisterhood

Almost one-quarter of the world's population are Muslim and many participate in Ramadan, the Islamic holy month that commemorates the revelation of the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad. (EMILY SCHERER FOR THE 19TH)

Michigan Senate Moves to Cap Medical Debt Interest

A hospital bill can land like a second diagnosis. You survive the ER visit, the surgery, the specialist, the test results. Then the envelope...

Dreamgirls Returns to Detroit Easter Weekend

Dreams have a way of staying with us. Some live in the songs we grew up on. Some live in the films that helped shape...

DIA Opens Call for Wayne County Student Artists as 2026 High School Exhibition Returns

A sketchbook on a bedroom floor. Clay under fingernails after class. A photograph captured between homework, family responsibilities, and the pressure of figuring out...

First Independence Bank Taps Caroline Chambers to Lead New Community Investment Foundation

A bank with a long history of serving communities too often locked out of mainstream financial opportunity is preparing to widen that work through...

Wayne County Urges Homeowners Behind on Property Taxes to Enroll in Payment Plans by March 31

A tax bill sits on the counter long after dinner. Some people keep it face down. Some people open it, close it, then open...

Detroit’s Free Opening Day Tailgate Returns to Grand Circus Park April 3

Detroit does not need a reminder that Opening Day carries its own kind of electricity. Jerseys come out before breakfast. Bars fill up. Sidewalks...

Coulter Centers Affordability in Oakland County State of the County

Bills have a way of telling the truth before politicians do. Rent due. Prescriptions delayed. Student loan balances that keep showing up even after...

Belle Isle Marks 313 Day With Free Family Events and Reopening of Historic Casino

Detroiters have long treated Belle Isle like shared family space — part escape, part gathering place, part reminder that even in a hard-working city,...

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