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Jeremy Allen, Executive Editor

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Jeremy Allen oversees the editorial team at the Michigan Chronicle. To contact him for story ideas or partnership opportunities, send an email to jallen@michronicle.com.

Detroit Boxer Lance ‘Boogie’ Smith Honors His Father’s Legacy through Faith, Fight, & Focus

Punches don’t sneak up on Lance "Boogie" Smith the way that memories do. Sometimes the memories are tucked inside a workout; sometimes they're hidden in...

Mayor Glenda McDonald: ‘Highland Park Can Be the Best Place Ever’ 

When Mayor Glenda McDonald talks about Highland Park's future, she talks less about campaign slogans and more about construction projects, demolition sites and water...

No Surprises: Mayor Sheffield’s Rise Higher Report Shows Detroiters Want Good Jobs, Grocery Stores, and Safe Neighborhood

Long before the speeches began Monday, June 15, at Marygrove Conservancy, Detroiters had already spent months telling Mayor Mary Sheffield what they want their...

From Selma to Dearborn: The Jackson Home Opens at The Henry Ford as a Living Landmark of Civil Rights

The Jackson Home is now open to the public at Greenfield Village, part of the larger campus of The Henry Ford, and it arrived...

DPSCD Unveils a Transformative New Curriculum Model at Hall of Fame Alumni Gala 

Detroit students entering high school this fall could walk away four years later with far more than a diploma. Under a new redesign unveiled...

Could Mike Duggan Be the Fixer U-M or MSU Needs as President?

Mike Duggan may have just become the most overqualified unemployed man in Michigan. Only a few weeks removed from ending his independent run for governor,...

Detroit Development Fund Marks 25 Years of Fueling Black Business Growth Across Detroit 

By Jeremy Allen, Executive Editor  For 25 years, the Detroit Development Fund has quietly done the kind of work that rarely makes headlines but often...

Veteran Journalist Biba Adams to Join Michigan Chronicle as 2026 Report for America Corps Member 

The Michigan Chronicle will join Report for America’s 2026-27 cohort as part of a nationwide effort to strengthen local journalism, and Detroit-based journalist Biba Adams has been selected as...

Detroit Can’t Police Its Way Out of a Parenting Crisis 

Some – emphasis on *some* – Detroit parents are failing their children, and downtown Detroit is paying the price for it.  There’s really no softer or more politically comfortable way...

Mike Duggan Exits Governor’s Race, Closing a Chapter That Many Democrats Feared Would Divide the Vote

Independent gubernatorial candidate and former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has ended his campaign for governor, bringing a close to a candidacy that increasingly unsettled...

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