Civic and Community Information
Resources to avoid property tax foreclosure for Detroiters
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Need to get on a payment plan or get other assistance to avoid tax foreclosure? A guide to government offices and nonprofits who can offer guidance.
Opinion: It is time Detroit revolutionizes health and wellness in the Black community
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The founder of a Detroit-based Black health initiative uses images and events to reinforce and redefine messages of health and well-being.
Civic and Community Information
Author Colson Whitehead on “The Nickel Boys,” “Invisible Man,” and Racial Inequity
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In Partnership With WDET - Detroit Today
The Pulitzer Prize winning author’s newest work takes place in Jim Crow America. He’s part of a legacy of Black writers that goes back generations.
Civic and Community Information
Podcast: Stories of gentrification from Detroit residents
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We’re losing the soul in our neighborhoods.
Bridge Michigan
Computer pad can help Michigan seniors use telehealth during coronavirus
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In Partnership With Bridge Michigan
Metro Detroit seniors are embracing online doctor visits using a customized tablet that makes technology less intimidating. It could prove a model for seniors increasingly dependent on telehealth to visit doctors.
Civic and Community Information
Detroit Will Breathe organizer writes an open letter to City Council President Brenda Jones
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Criticism of Detroit city officials is nothing new. Residents, activists and organizers have often opposed the actions and statements of elected officials. In the wake of continued police violence, one activist asks a city council member if Black Lives Matter?
Civic and Community Information
Detroit women filling a niche in the grocery supply chain
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How Latinas in Southwest Detroit turned their part-time hustle of delivering groceries in their community into a full-time job.
Civic and Community Information
City of Detroit, Schools to partner and help adults earn high school diploma
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The High School Completion Program will initially accept 50 adult students who will be paid to complete their GED or high school diploma. The program is a partnership through the City of Detroit’s Detroit at Work program and Detroit Public Schools Community District.
Civic and Community Information
As Michigan’s ban on property tax foreclosures expires, some in Detroit fear a new wave of people losing their homes
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A statewide ban on property tax foreclosures expired this week. Though government seizures and auctions of property remain suspended in Detroit until 2021, many are fighting for a permanent legal change to avoid thousands, if not more, from losing their homes.
Civic and Community Information
Opinion: Defund the police, invest in Black communities says Detroit organizer Yusef Bunchy Shakur
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In the midst of a pandemic people are protesting and rebelling. The anger and frustration of Black Bodies can only be contained for so long.
Civic and Community Information
What is mail-in voting? All Voting is Local Michigan town hall explains
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All Voting is Local Michigan hosted a tele-town hall Monday evening with Detroit Action, the League of Women voters of Michigan, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib. The panel discussed Michigan’s expanded access to voting while explaining the absentee, or vote by mail, process.