Detroit leaders urge action on gun violence to ‘bring relief to our babies’
Detroit has seen nine mass shootings this year alone and heightened frustrations among residents fearful of public spaces or leaving their homes.
Free legal help program for low-income Detroiters facing eviction is delayed
The program, created via a new city ordinance, is meant to provide lawyers for low-income Detroiters and was to start Oct. 1.
Opinion: Duggan touts homeownership as crisis escalates for Black renters
A closer look at Detroit’s latest housing data suggests now is not the time to celebrate, but to take action.
Detroiters can learn about utility, home repair help at resource fair
Detroiters can visit Spirit Plaza Tuesday to get information on programs that can help lower some of their housing costs.
‘No violence in general’: Detroit students speak out at Day of Peace
“A Day of Peace and Healing,” was created to acknowledge the trauma and tragedies students have experienced at school or at home.
Nonprofit develops award for Black leaders advancing racial justice
Three “trailblazers” in Michigan will be honored, with the top prize being $10,000 in grant money. Two other awardees will get $2,500.
Regulators order DTE, Consumers to increase transparency
The order comes on the heels of an August power outage that stretched up to a week for thousands of Metro Detroit customers and caused multiple fatalities from down wires.
One of Detroit’s most powerful families is displacing east side residents
The Moroun empire is quietly buying up properties in Detroit’s Cadillac Heights neighborhood on the east side
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The importance of African-American led institutions | Equity in Detroit corporations
“Making Black America,” hosted by history professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is a new series on PBS. As part of the series, Detroit Public Television and WDET have teamed up to host a free town hall on September 27 covering the history and future of Black fraternities and sororities and their connection to Detroit. Event moderator Mark S. Lee joins the show to discuss the importance of African-American led institutions, the series, and the upcoming event. Then, Bishop Edgar Vann, senior pastor of Second Ebenezer Church stops by to discuss the nonprofit Detroit Equity Inc., which seeks to address equity in corporations that operate out of Detroit.
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Why some Republican border-state governors are shipping migrants to other states
Caitlin Dickerson, Staff writer at The Atlantic, Ruby Robinson, managing attorney at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, and Linus Chan, director of the Detainee Rights Clinic and law professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, join the show to discuss why some Republican border-state governors are shipping migrants to other states, including the legality and ramifications of the practice.
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Michigan’s Proposal 1: The case for increasing term limits and financial disclosures for state law makers
Josh Pugh, senior director of public affairs for Truscott Rossman, and Jason Cabel Roe, principal for Roe Strategic, join the show to discuss Proposal 1, including how it seeks to increase term limits and financial disclosures for state lawmakers, and why they believe it will benefit the state.
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