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Michigan Chronicle Will Honor Black Veterans with ‘The Color of Liberty’

Around Detroit, you can find military pictures in plenty of family homes. Maybe it’s a picture of dad in his dress uniform, standing proud. Maybe...

Rev. Horace Sheffield: Detroit Has an Opportunity to Reimagine the Renaissance Center

By Rev. Horace L. Sheffield, III -- Pastor, New Destiny Church As someone who plans to begin limiting my civic engagement, I want to make...

Dr. Darienne Hudson: The Promise We Renew Every Fall

By Dr. Darienne Hudson, President and CEO of United Way for Southeastern Michigan and Chair of the Detroit Public Schools Community District Foundation Board of...

From the Written Word to the Spoken Word: Giving Grief a Voice

By Dr. Portia Lockett, Contributing Writer For quite some time, I have been blessed with the opportunity to share my heart, experiences, and professional insight...

Sickle Cell Walk to Highlight Awareness, Blood Donation and New Mobile Testing Van

Detroit’s sickle cell community will gather Saturday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History for the Sickle Cell Disease Association of...

Tribute to a Trailblazing Global Visionary: The Extraordinary Life, Enduring Legacy and Lasting Impact of Dr. Karl Dwight Gregory 

Dr. Sheila T. Gregory  There are lives whose influence is so expansive that telling their story means telling the story of a city, a movement,...

Young Detroit Musicians Find Their Sound on the Jazz Festival Stage

By: Jasmine West Detroit’s jazz legacy has long been built by musicians who learned the craft in the city, found their sound here and, in...

55 Years Ago, the KKK Bombed Pontiac School Buses Trying to Stop Integration 

When people try to minimize racism and the systematic effect it continues to have on Black people and in Black communities, they often try...

Gloria Jean Horton, Beloved Matriarch and Wife of Detroit Tigers Legend Willie Horton, Dies at 85 

Gloria Jean Horton, beloved wife of Detroit Tigers legend Willie Horton and the cherished matriarch of the Horton family, passed away on Saturday, August...

The Banker Who Watched His Neighborhood Lose a Bank Is Now Investing $20M in Detroit 

When Kala Gibson was 12 years old, he was already learning what it meant to be a banker.  He had a paper route. He was...
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