The Detroit Public Schools Community District’s 57th annual An Evening of Fine Arts will feature around 760 students in 27 performances, ranging from jazz and marching bands and orchestras to choirs, dance groups, and a preview from the musical “Once on This Island.”
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Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas recorded an anthem for the civil rights era and fought for fair pay
Their classic anthem “Dancing in the Street” reflected the revolutionary mood of civil rights protesters, especially Black Americans in the 1960s.
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This Detroiter is improving his neighborhood, and city hall noticed
Jerjuan Howard has helped organize a community garden, is opening a bookstore on April 25 to give students a place to go after school, and founded a local business association.
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Bookstock is back in metro Detroit for its 22nd year | American Black Journal
Host Stephen Henderson sits down with Bookstock Honorary Chairperson Neal Rubin from the Detroit Free Press, along with last year’s Bookstock essay contest winner, Skylar Chapman, and her teacher at Cooke STEM Academy Kristeen Holmes.
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Saxophonist Joe Lovano discusses his role as this year’s Detroit Jazz Festival Artist-in-Residence | American Black Journal
We’ll hear from this year’s Detroit Jazz Festival Artist-in-Residence, tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano. He sits down for a conversation with 90.9 WRCJ Host John Penney about his musical journey and connection to Detroit music legends. They also talk about Lovano’s workshop for Wayne State University music students and the advice
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Arts educator Shavonne Coleman makes directorial debut at Detroit Repertory Theatre
The Detroiter made her professional directing debut with “Eclipsed,” which runs through May 17. The play is set in Liberia in 2003 during the end of the Second Liberian Civil War.
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Friends, mentees remember gospel scholar Deborah Smith Pollard
The award-winning professor, Detroit radio host and gospel historian died on Sunday, April 12.
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Detroit educator’s afterschool initiatives help celebrate, inspire city’s youth
The educator takes on multiple projects when he’s not working as a counselor, including afterschool programs for Black boys and men and a documentary on two Detroit students.
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A conversation with Tyree Guyton, the Detroit-born artist known for creating The Heidelberg Project | One Detroit
One Detroit contributor Stephen Henderson, host of American Black Journal, speaks with the 2026 Kresge Eminent Artist Tyree Guyton and his manager, Jenenne Whitfield, about receiving metro Detroit’s highest arts honor.
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2026 Jazz Fest Artist-in-Residence Joe Lovano visits Wayne State, offers a preview of the Labor Day weekend event | One Detroit
During his visit, One Detroit contributor John Penney of 90.9 WRCJ sat down with Lovano to discuss his journey as a musician, his connection to the city and what inspires his music.