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.
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Detroit students can get free laptops through Focus: HOPE
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.
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One Detroit: Deidre D.S. Sense / Asbury Park / Erik Ronmark / Sphinx
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.
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Why is Detroit Police Department’s vaccination rate only 39%?
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.
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Detroit may step up its voice in national reparations movement
In honor of Juneteenth, City Council Pro Tem Mary Sheffield will introduce a resolution recognizing the City’s unjust treatment of Black people and, if approved, Detroit would join a growing national reparations movement.
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American Black Journal: Detroit Future City / Discover your Spark
Detroit Future City releases its annual report on “The State of Economic Equity in Detroit,” which shows a continuing economic opportunity gap for people of color. CEO Anika Goss talks with Stephen about their findings and offers recommendations for providing a path to prosperity for all Detroiters.
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One Detroit: Nate Wallace / Seven Last Words of the Unarmed / Hannah Lydia Wilson / AXD
Aaron Dworkin from Arts Engines talks with Dr. Eugene Rogers about the powerful multi-movement choral work by Atlanta-based composer Joel Thompson titled Seven Last Words of the Unarmed.
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Joel “Fluent” Greene shares Detroit truth without ‘the white gaze’
Poet Joel “Fluent” Greene discusses his new book, “The Detroit Poems,” and what it’s like to be from a gentrifying city.
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Opinion: Detroit Charter Commission almost out of time
Esmat Ishag-Osman of the Citizen’s Research Council believes Detroit Charter Commissioners wasted time — and pushed its three-year window to get revisions to voters — to the brink.
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Moratorium on evictions could expire June 30. Here’s how to get help.
A federal moratorium on evictions is slated to expire at the end of the month and tenant advocates, concerned the order may not be extended, are urging people behind on rent to apply for a federally funded rent aid program before the moratorium runs out.