Danielle Parker, the CEO of Detroit Maid, says her business almost didn’t make it this past spring.
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Detroit’s Black community leaders are blasting Wayne State University for doing a poor job of serving the city, citing its low Black student enrollment, retention and graduation rates.
The new documentary, “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” has been greenlit for an in-person viewing in Detroit on Aug. 6 — the 55th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act into law.
The coronavirus pandemic has shed new light on racial disparities in American health outcomes. Economic disadvantage is one reason Black people in the United States are on average less healthy than white people — but there are other causes, including the ongoing stress of systemic racism.
As marchers across the nation and in Metro Detroit protest police brutality against Blacks, one group is on the front lines — young people.
A $10 million fundraising campaign launched Thursday to rebuild Black Wall Street —Tulsa, Oklahoma’s black-owned business district destroyed in 1921 by white rioters — could soon spread to Detroit, organizers said.
The first week of April, the Rev. Kenneth Flowers had a slight dry cough, body aches and a bad headache. His 90-year-old mother he helped take care of had tested positive for the coronavirus a few days earlier, and so he asked his doctor whether he should get a test.
Building on the city’s momentum with its slowing pace of new COVID-19 cases and deaths, residents of Detroit have an opportunity to get tested for free today.
Detroit Rev. Horace Sheffield III shared what the toughest parts of his battle with coronavirus (COVID-19) have been.
People told Rev. Horace Sheffield III not to take the March 12 trip to New York to meet with Rev. Al Sharpton.