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A public defender office in Wayne County announced a new program, slated to begin in September, to help criminal defense clients avoid eviction.
No guns, just gloves: How a Detroiter is using boxing to combat gun violence.
To create the first cohort of its kind in Detroit, DTE energy partnered with the City of Detroit and local nonprofit Focus: HOPE for a six-week job-training program for metro Detroiters who want good-paying careers as tree-trimmers. We spoke with the only Black woman to graduate from the first cohort about why she is getting into this new line of work.
Two wide-ranging reports look at the overall well-being of Michigan children and families, from housing to education, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
In housing markets like Detroit’s, scarcity of credit means prospective buyers who are unable to obtain mortgages must turn to cash sales or land contracts, which bring risk but also the potential reward of homeownership.
In an effort to keep families safe, Latino students and organizers want Detroit charters to adopt changes that protect undocumented families.
As the school year comes to an end, Christy McDonald reflects on what we’ve learned about education with executive director of Education Trust Midwest Amber Arellano.
The City of Detroit has partnered with nonprofit Focus: HOPE and human-I-T to give 1,000 used laptops to low-income Detroiters in hopes of decreasing the city’s digital divide. Though a step in the right direction, the city’s Director of Digital Inclusion says more needs to be done to grant Detroiters access to the internet.
Veteran Detroit hip-hop artist Deidre D.S. Sense paired her latest album “Copper St. Chrysalis” with what she called her Quarantine Concert Series. The three-part video series starting with “A walk in the Park” was meant to get people moving wherever they are and remind them that even if we’re alone we still need to go out into the world and take a walk in the park to reconnect with ourselves and feel a little better.
Less than half of Detroit police, and city residents, are vaccinated for COVID-19. Here’s what this means for public health and safety in the city.