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Horace Sheffield Jr.’s Archives, Olayami Dabls, Tylonn Sawyer | American Black Journal Full Episode

American Black Journal continues to celebrate Black History Month by taking a closer look at the legacy of Horace Sheffield, Jr., a trailblazer in the African American labor union movement. Host Stephen Henderson sits down with Sheffield’s son Rev. Horace Sheffield III to talk about his father’s influence during the civil rights era. Then, producer Marcus Green profiles this year’s Kresge Eminent Artist Olayami Dabls at his MBAD African Bead Museum on Detroit’s west side. Plus, One Detroit Associate Producer Will Glover has a conversation with Detroit artist and educator Tylonn Sawyer about the importance of depicting contemporary messages in his artwork.

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Detroit’s Horace Sheffield III reflects on relationship father had with MLK Jr.

DETROIT (FOX 2) – Horace Sheffield III was in Washington D.C. during Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.

“I was there. I sold buttons. I went to planning meetings,” he said.

Sheffield, who was 9 at the time, said his father, Horace Sheffield Jr., and King formed a friendship in the 1950s. His father’s work as a Black trade unionist helped bring King to Detroit.

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Critics of redrawn voting districts raise concerns over lack of Black representation

DETROIT (FOX 2) – The reaction has been mixed with the newly drawn voting maps in Michigan – which will literally change the political landscape.

The past few months we heard the cries from Black elected officials, voting groups, and voters about being overlooked by Michigan’s Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission.

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Detroit Association of Black Organization offering free COVID-19 rapid testing to Metro Detroiters

DETROIT, MI (WXYZ) — The Detroit Association of Black Organizations is offering free rapid COVID-19 testing to any Metro Detroiter looking for a test.

The organization will hold its pop-up test site at The Sheffield Center at 12048 Grand River Detroit, MI 48204.

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Community honors 11-year-old who was kidnapped alongside his 3 siblings in Detroit

DETROIT – The community is honoring an 11-year-old boy for keeping his composure when he and his three siblings were kidnapped last month by a woman driving a van in Detroit.

Officials said they pulled over Stephanie Marie Binder, 37, of Detroit, around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday (Nov. 30) in the area of Grand River and Evergreen avenues for running a red light.

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MSU report on redistricting finds no partisanship, but leaders concerned about Black representation

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan’s redistricting process is well underway and researchers at Michigan State say in a new report that the independent commission tasked with drawing the new maps has shown no sign of partisanship, but Republicans still have a slight upper hand and there’s growing controversy around Black representation.

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Detroit officials, activists say proposed political maps disenfranchise Black voters

Michigan’s new independent redistricting commission, and the draft political maps it has drawn, are headed into a storm next week at TCF Center in Detroit, to say the least.

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‘The difference between life and death.’ Black leaders step up vaccine campaigns as Delta variant hits the unvaccinated

Jeniffer Hall was hesitant to get vaccinated until early July when a Detroit pastor convinced her that she needed the shot to protect herself and her brother — who she has cared for since he suffered an aneurysm — from Covid-19.

After surviving Covid-19 herself in 2020, Hall said she decided to follow the science instead of listening to her adult children who say the US government can’t be trusted.

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Primary night in Metro Detroit: Proposal P fails, Duggan sails and write-ins struggle

Detroit — The most controversial of questions put before voters — whether Detroit should revise its charter — was soundly defeated Tuesday night. 

Two in three city voters in unofficial returns rejected the changes.

The initiative was crafted over three years by an elected nine-member Detroit Charter Revision Commission with support from a coalition of environmental and human rights groups. The commission and coalitions that support it contended the plan refocused city government with a greater emphasis on quality of life issues including affordable water and transit, increased oversight and policing reforms.

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Proposal P, Detroit plan to change its charter, shot down in primary election

Detroit voters on Tuesday shot down by a large margin a contentious ballot measure that would have altered the city’s governing document.

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