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A $7.2 million renovation has turned a former Catholic school in Detroit’s Banglatown neighborhood into housing.
The suit claims the districts violate the constitution because they don’t have even populations. One of the plaintiffs is challenging Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for re-election.
Through a $250,000 grant from the A.A. Van Elslander Foundation, the nonprofit is looking to help Detroiters in hard-hit areas around Jefferson Chalmers make crucial furnace repairs and link residents to resources.
Detroit’s rich history of boxing around the city has produced numerous champions including Joe Louis, Thomas Hearns and Hilmer Kentry to name a few.
A federal ordering website, due to open for business Wednesday, opened Tuesday, a day earlier than expected.
The Detroit school district has extended virtual learning by another week, but officials say students and staff should expect to return to in-person instruction on Jan. 31.
Detroit saw a surge in sexual assault cases during the pandemic, and police expect the number to continue to increase as they ask more survivors to come forward. Police are also allocating more resources to the Special Victims Units and improving outreach to the community, but some say more needs to be done.
American Black Journal Host Stephen Henderson leads a wide-ranging roundtable discussion around some of the biggest current events catching headlines in the new year.
Roughly one-third of children in Michigan under age 5 qualified for child care subsidies, but only 5% received those credits. Meanwhile, an estimated 44% of Michiganders live in “child care deserts” — places with a lack of licensed child care providers.
Detroit City Council on Tuesday approved a resolution to use federal pandemic recovery dollars to help fund a project to turn a long vacant high-rise — the Lee Plaza on West Grand Boulevard — into senior housing.
Detroit voters flipped the City Council in November, placing six new members on the nine-person council. Every member took an oath to serve the people of Detroit for the next four years, but what can Detroiters actually expect, based on the councilmembers’ actions so far?