One of Detroit’s long-abandoned auto plants, the Fisher Body Plant No. 21, may soon be transformed into housing and retail space.
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One Detroit – Ukraine Band DakhaBrakha, Kresge Eminent Artist, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
WRCJ 90.9FM Producer and host Peter Whorf sits down with Calderini to talk about the exciting changes that are coming for the symphony next season as well as the performances it still has left in its spring 2021-2022 season.
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One Detroit – Atlanta Spa Shooting, Author Rae Chesny, DakhaBrakha’s Protest Music
When a gunman killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, last year in the Atlanta spa shooting, Zora Bowens called her best friend Ceena Vang to check in on how she was feeling.
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American Black Journal – Detroit United Front, Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibit, Laura Rain & The Caesars
Stephen Henderson sits down with NBL CEO Ken Harris and DBCC President Danielle Benson to talk about the mission of Detroit United Front, as well as the need for education, training and capital resources.
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American Black Journal – Celebrating Black Female Trailblazers for Women’s History Month
For Women’s History Month, “American Black Journal” celebrates two African American women trailblazers, Michigan Court of Appeals Judge, the Hon. Cynthia Stephens and the late author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, whose accomplishments have paved the way for future generations of African Americans.
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One Detroit – Russia-Ukraine Conflict, Detroit Rewards TV, Grocery Worker Shortage, Belle Isle Aquarium
One Detroit’s Bill Kubota talks with two local Ukrainian American attorneys, Natalia Kujan Gentry and Danylo Terlecky, to learn about their efforts to tell the real stories of the Ukraine-Russia conflict overseas, and their battle to fight back against the misinformation being spread online.
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American Black Journal – Reparations: What Is Owed to Black Americans?
On “American Black Journal” this week, host Stephen Henderson revisits a portion of the show’s latest virtual town hall, hosted in conjunction with BridgeDetroit, centered around reparations and what is owed to Black Americans.
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One Detroit – MSP Racial Disparity, Whitmer’s $74 Billion Budget, Kresge Eminent Artist Olayami Dabls
One Detroit Contributor Stephen Henderson examines the results of an independent study from the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice showing African Americans were stopped by Michigan State Police troopers at disproportionately high rates in 2020.
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American Black Journal – The Black Church in Detroit One-Year Anniversary Special
American Black Journal celebrates The Black Church in Detroit’s one-year anniversary in collaboration with the Ecumenical Theological Seminary and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History with a special hour-long episode.
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One Detroit – The State of Immigration in Michigan
As tensions have risen in Afghanistan over the last several months, more than a thousand Afghan refugees are expected to seek shelter in parts of Michigan including the state’s west side, Lansing and Ypsilanti as more Afghanistan families evacuate their Middle Eastern homes to begin new lives.