Photo credit: Ernest Dixon II
By: Jasmine West
Nearly a century after Dr. Violet T. Lewis founded what would become Michigan’s only historically Black college, Detroit...
By: Jasmine West
Detroiters will have a public opportunity next week to pause, gather, and recognize the service of U.S. Army soldiers, veterans, and future...
By Amanda Nothaft, Director of Data and Analysis at the University of Michigan
Property taxes in Detroit, the highest among major U.S. cities, continue to burden the city’s...
JPMorgan Chase Bank
In 1975, George Barnes Jr. made a decision that would define a generation. He walked away from a hospital job where advancement was...
By: Jasmine West
Detroit Public Schools Community District students are learning at a faster rate than students in most districts across the country, according to...
By: Jasmine West
Downtown Detroit lost one of its louder, brighter dining attractions with the quiet closure of Sugar Factory American Brasserie at One Campus...
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...
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...
Amanda Nothaft, University of Michigan
Property taxes in Detroit, the highest among major U.S. cities, continue to burden the city’s low-income households. Failure to pay...
By: Jasmine West
Detroit’s bankruptcy case now belongs to history, closing a chapter that shaped the city’s finances, services, reputation, and the daily lives of...
