Detroit asks residents for input on the city budget. Will they be heard?
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Detroit issued a survey and is hosting meetings to ask residents to help define budget priorities. Residents wonder if their voices matter.
Emergencies and Risks (COVID-19)
What you should know about Detroit’s COVID-19 vaccination plan
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Detroit said it plans to vaccinate 5,000 people a week but the city must overcome fear, distrust and logistics to fire up the effort.
Civic and Community Information
From sundown towns to defunding the police, a journalist describes his 2020
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BridgeDetroit’s Bryce Huffman reviews his 2020 reporting, which includes a look at the generational differences between activists, the impact of gun violence on families and the city’s movement to defund the police.
Health and Welfare
Detroiter creates network to connect Black mental health workers, clients
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Stressors such as the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, images of police violence against Black people and a prolonged election led one Detroit woman to create an online mental health resource.
Civic and Community Information
Meet Helen Moore: Detroit education activist and state elector
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One of the Detroiters on the Electoral College has fought for equality for several decades.
Political and Public Policy Information
Facing racist death threats, Detroit’s Cynthia Johnson won’t back down [VIDEO interview]
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In an exclusive interview with BridgeDetroit, state Rep. Cynthia Johnson, a Detroit Democrat, shares some of the racist attacks and death threats she’s received. [WARNING: sensitive language]
Civic and Community Information
Grants to Black-led Detroit businesses memorialize Marlowe Stoudamire
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On its one-year anniversary, Black Leaders Detroit honored the late entrepreneur by awarding grants to 50 Black-led businesses.
Political and Public Policy Information
Why Detroit council rejected the mayor’s proposal to aid overtaxed homeowners
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The mayor’s resolution sought to fund a $6 million relief program for overtaxed Detroiters. City council voted no; here’s why.
2020 Election
Detroit activists say police response to pro-Trump protests is hypocritical
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Black Lives Matter advocates say Detroit police treated pro-Trump activists differently when the election protesters sought to disrupt the city’s vote count.
Detroit may see highest voter turnout in ‘20 to 30 years’
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No drama and high turnout on Election Day in Detroit but final numbers won’t be in until late Wednesday.