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Going On (and On) the Record with Detroit’s Own Donnie Simpson, Who Still Knows How to Keep Us Talking

It’s a late Friday evening in the DMV, and Donnie Simpson is at home reciting a Ice-T verse word-for-word over the phone to a...

Longtime Chronicle Scribe Steve Holsey, the ‘Dean of Documenting Detroit,’ Dies at 77

Steve Holsey, a veteran journalist who began writing for the Michigan Chronicle in his teens and would go on to spend the next five...

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...

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...

Darienne Hudson Takes Over DPSCD Foundation Leadership Ahead of Pivotal School Board Election

Dr. Darienne Hudson has been named chair of the Detroit Public Schools Community District Foundation Board of Directors, succeeding the late Dr. Iris A....

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...

Money Matters: What’s Really Happening in Metro Detroit’s Housing Market 

By: Mark S. Lee, Guest Columnist  If you’re buying or selling a home in Metro Detroit right now, the housing market may feel a little...

When “Choice” Comes to Michigan, Black Communities Will Pay the Price – Again

By Drs. Pamela Pugh and Anne Tapp Jaksa Michigan is being told that the federal Education Freedom Tax Credit is about opportunity. We have heard that...

More Than 240,000 Without Power as Severe Storms Batter Metro Detroit

By: Jasmine West More than 240,000 DTE Energy customers were without power Friday morning after another round of severe storms tore through Metro Detroit, bringing...

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