Authentically Detroit
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Authentically Detroit is a BridgeDetroit partner podcast that tells the stories of Detroiters’ lives through exposition and interview. 

Orlando Bailey welcomed back Jermaine Ruffin from Detroit’s Housing and Revitalization Department and “The Streets Are Planning” podcast. Ruffin’s visit was inspired by a recent article he penned in Medium aptly titled, “For Those Who Love the Built Environment: Anxiety of a Black Urban Planner.” Allen Penniman, urban planner and designer in Detroit’s Planning and Development Department joins the conversation as well. Listen today!

A lifelong Detroiter, Orlando P. Bailey learned how to practice community development in the neighborhood where he was born. Passionate about shifting the narrative of Black cities & neighborhoods,...