DPSCD approved tentative two-year contracts with the Detroit Federation of Paraprofessionals and other unions during a Tuesday board meeting.
Micah Walker
Micah Walker joins the BridgeDetroit team covering the arts and culture and education in the city.
Originally from the metro Detroit area, she is back in her home state after two years in Ohio. Micah was previously a trending/ general assignment reporter at The Columbus Dispatch, where she covered a wide range of areas such as the arts, child care and the homeless population. She was also a general assignment reporter for The Marion Star, covering the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as education and business.
Micah is a graduate of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, receiving her bachelor’s degree in journalism.
In 2022, Micah was selected as a fellow for the National Press Foundation’s Widening the Pipeline fellowship, a year-long program that offers multimedia and leadership training to early career journalists of color.
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Culture Canvas: Celebrating Detroit’s youth artists
InsideOut Literary Arts is hosting a free release event from 5-7 p.m. Thursday at Next Chapter Books on Detroit’s east side for its poetry chapbook.
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New and returning Detroit school board members focused on tackling chronic absenteeism, literacy rates
Incumbent board member Sherry Gay-Dagnogo came out on top Tuesday among the candidates in a bid for a second term, followed by Monique Bryant and Ida Simmons Short.
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Detroit seeks a Joe Louis sculptor
The city put out an open call for a sculptor to create a new statue of the iconic boxer focused on his outside the ring to be displayed along the greenway. Plus, Detroit’s latest arts and culture happenings.
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‘Bird Box’ author to promote new book at Detroit Public Library
Franklin author Josh Malerman will promote his latest book, “Incidents Around the House,” on Sunday at DPL. But this won’t be a typical book talk.
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Ghostly gathering at Detroit Library
Micah Walker talks with paranormal author and investigator Nicole Beauchamp ahead of an event tonight at Detroit Public Library.
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The journey to revival for Malcolm X’s former Inkster home
BridgeDetroit and American Black Journal on Detroit PBS share the story of a nonprofit’s yearslong quest to restore the home where the civil rights leader lived in the early 1950s.
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Detroit taps rappers, carnival attractions to entice early voters
Early voting kicked of Saturday in Detroit and is underway at 14 sites throughout the city.
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Detroit exhibit uplifts the ‘art’ of conversation
Micah Walker catches up with queer typographer Mark Addison Smith. His exhibition, “You Look Like the Right Type,” is on display through Friday at the College for Creative Studies’ Valade Family Gallery in New Center.
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Honoring an unsung hero in Michigan’s Civil War fight
William Dollarson was a formerly enslaved person who escaped from bondage and became a conductor for the Underground Railroad in Detroit.