The multi-hyphenate moore – also an activist, recording artist, founder of book publishing company Moore Black Press, filmmaker and mother – is the city’s third poet laureate.
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: An ode to Seven Mile and Livernois
BridgeDetroit reporter Micah Walker talks with Tiff Massey about the inspiration behind her new exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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Detroit police: ‘We did not shut down Cinco de Mayo’
White said the people who were ticketed were mostly for public intoxication or disorderly conduct and some food trucks were unlicensed.
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Tiff Massey brings ‘7 Mile + Livernois’ to the DIA in new exhibit
Tiff Massey’s “7 Mile + Livernois” features new sculptures commissioned by the DIA, along with works by several other artists from the museum’s collection. The exhibit opens Sunday.
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Former Detroit diner owner leading Downtown Boxing Gym’s culinary arts program
Molly Mitchell, the former owner of Detroit diner Rose’s Fine Food, became DBG’s associate director of culinary arts in January.
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Culture Canvas: Filling a need in Detroit’s youth arts scene
Micah Walker writes on a theater group filling a need in Detroit’s youth arts scene.
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‘Degree Forward’ is making college more accessible for Detroiters
The Detroit-based college program provides affordable, accelerated online classes for people with time limitations or who didn’t excel in traditional school.
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Detroit theater company La Carpa goes back in time for new production
“Lost In Our Roots” looks at Latine history as a group of Gen Z students time travel from the 1400s to the present to meet conquistadors and revolutionaries and visit Spain, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Mexico before coming back home to Detroit.
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Culture Canvas: Calculating ‘The White Bonus’
BridgeDetroit reporter Micah Walker talks with Detroit author and journalist Tracie McMillan about the 8-year process behind her latest book.
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Detroit journalist examines the cash value of racism in new book
Tracie McMillan’s “The White Bonus” examines the way people have benefited financially from white privilege in areas such as homeownership, the prison and public school systems and health care.