By Bankole Thompson, Detroit News — Despite the revival taking place in cities like Detroit, Baltimore and Pittsburgh, they are being turned into “places of growing inequality where small, glittering enclaves of prosperity are ringed by larger areas of decline and where millions are relegated to lives of poverty and hopelessness.” That’s the message historian and author Alan Mallach conveys in his new book, “The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity…
RiseUp Detroit chronicles the Revolutionary evolution of Black Detroit during the 60’s. Featuring activists JoAnn Watson, Frank Joyce, Helen Moore, Rev. Dan Aldridge, Elliot Hall, Esq., Charles E. Ferrell and…
By Sarah Cwiek, Michigan Radio — One Detroit family celebrated getting a new home Thursday, as they also called for other families like them to receive similar compensation as victims of what they call “illegal” foreclosures. The Bonnett family lost their home to property tax foreclosure in 2015. Nearly one in four Detroit properties was tax-foreclosed between 2011 and 2015. Some researchers, led by Illinois Institute of Technology and visiting…
African Global Reparations — April 21, 2018 Lecture and Q&A at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History with Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice Chancellor, University of West Indies, Jamaica
It’s an idea that has stirred controversy over the years: reparations to Americans harmed by U.S. government policies such as slavery and internment. On Saturday, Gesu Catholic Church’s Beloved Community…
Video by Motherboard — When it comes to the internet, our connections are generally controlled by telecom companies. But a group of people in Detroit is trying to change that….
Season of Rebellions, The 1967 Newark and Detroit Rebellions – Vantage Point Radio Show hosted by Dr. Ron Daniels with guests Dr. Mtangulizi Sanyika (Houston, Texas), Junius Williams, Esq. (Newark, New…