To reduce traffic and cars on Belle Isle, state parks officials are starting trolley service this summer.
Jena Brooker
Jena is BridgeDetroit's environmental reporter, covering everything from food and agricultural to pollution to climate change.
She was a 2022 Data Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism where she produced award-winning coverage on the automotive industry in Detroit and environmental racism. She was also a Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellow in 2022 through CASW, AHCJ, and SEJ. Before joining BridgeDetroit she covered environmental issues across the Midwest as a Reporting Fellow for the national online news platform Grist Magazine.
Jena has a Bachelor of Arts in environmental studies from the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Mother Jones, Salon, Slate, Grist, Next City, Chalkbeat, Planet Detroit, and others.
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People’s Food Co-op rewrites economics in Detroit grocery battle
The project seeks to expand access to healthy foods for a predominantly Black and low-income community where residents also face concerns of gentrification and displacement.
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Celebrating Black ‘abstraction’ in Detroit
A new exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit celebrates Black abstraction and expression in a city known for its realism.
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Detroit to take applications for recreational marijuana licenses
An unlimited number of licenses can be issued to growers, processors, transportation, safety, and event organizers.
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A freeway ripped the heart out of Black life in Detroit. Now Michigan wants to tear it down.
Highway removal is the easy part. Reparations is where it gets complicated.