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Stephen Henderson is the Founding Editor of BridgeDetroit, and a former writer and editor for the Detroit Free Press, Baltimore Sun and Chicago Tribune. Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Henderson is a Detroit resident and native.
On the next American Black Journal: Now that a federal moratorium on evictions has ended, we’ll look at how the COVID Emergency Rental Assistance (CERA) program can provide financial help for tenants who have fallen behind on their rent payments during the pandemic.
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Christy McDonald talks with CEO of the Detroit Regional Chamber Sandy Baruah about the importance of Michigan’s leaders coming back together at the Mackinac Policy Conference after two years, the safety measures that have been put into place, and what the focus of the conference will be.
On the next American Black Journal, Stephen is at the Downtown Boxing Gym in Detroit for a special episode on Muhammad Ali, Detroit’s major impact on the sport of boxing, and combining boxing with academics to empower young people.
The national nonprofit Little Free Library partners with local nonprofit Brilliant Detroit to get diverse books into the hands of Detroit children and families through free, book-sharing boxes in the city’s neighborhoods.
On the next American Black Journal, we’ll continue our yearlong series on The Black Church in Detroit with a look a the diverse denominations in the African American Church and Detroit’s long history of pastors who have risen to international or national leadership roles in their religious communities.
A new school year is starting up soon, and it comes as the country is seeing a spike in Covid cases.
Detroit students are heading back to the classroom in just a couple of weeks. Superintendent dr. Nikolai Vitti joins me to talk about the district’s reopening plan in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Plus, a long awaited honor for Detroit’s historic black bottom neighborhood.
United Way for Southeastern Michigan expands its innovative online resource for childcare and early childhood education to reach more families. Plus, we’ll take a look at a program that provides much-needed respite services for stressed caregivers.
A simple cinder block wall, built 80 years ago in Detroit. It’s been called the Wailing Wall, the Eight Mile Wall and the Birwood Wall because it went up along Birwood Street–a lasting symbol of racism during the war years when Detroit became America’s Arsenal of Democracy.