MICHIGAN CHRONICLE — More than 20 performing artists, activists, and family members will celebrate the life and legacy of Aretha Louise Franklin, known as the Queen...
OAKLAND POST — Dr. Donald H. Godbold, Ph.D., has written a memoir entitled, “Still Waters Run Deep, Family—A Life Story,” and it’s a stunning reminder that...
By Edward Henderson (The San Diego Voice and Viewpoint, NNPA Member) The term ‘crack baby’ emerged into the social consciousness in the 80’s and 90’s during...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributor) In 2010, Goldman Sachs launched the “10,000 Small Businesses” program to help business owners unlock their potential for...
[BLACKENTERPRISE.COM] Detroit leaders and organizations are working with JPMorgan Chase to deploy the bank’s $100 million commitment in various ways that are advancing the city’s priorities...
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Contributing Writer For the nation’s automakers, diversity is measured in colors and it’s better to be a solid green than a...
(The Root) – An 11-year-old Detroit boy has been charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of 3-year-old Elijah Walker in what police are calling a...
“It takes heart to fight something that so many consider a lost cause. A strong mind to breathe life into that cause and prove so many...
(Bleacher Report) – With his entry into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August, Jerome Bettis is ramping things up with a media circuit discussing his life and professional...
(Chicago Tribune) – Residents and activists fanned out at a busy intersection on Detroit’s east side, blocks from where a suburban high school girl was gunned...
Kimberly Hayes Taylor, THE GRIO DETROIT (TheGrio.com) — Civil Rights Activist Myrlie Evers-Williams remembers a bustling, thriving Detroit when she visited her father decades...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Whites are moving back to the American city that came to epitomize white flight, even as blacks continue to...
(Patch) – Last year during a testy exchange between “Real Housewives of Atlanta” stars NeNe Leakes and Kenya Moore, Leakes challenged Moore to give $20,000 to...
ALISHA GREEN, Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Chronic understaffing and police attitudes toward victims contributed to thousands of rape kits going untested for years in...
(Reuters) – A judge on Wednesday entered a not guilty plea for a man charged with drug possession who was dragged from his car, struck...
ED WHITE, Associated Press COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A teenager told authorities that her mother killed two siblings and forced her to put...
(Bloomberg) — Cindy Gresham paid $6,000 cash in 2010 for her Tudor-style house on Detroit’s west side for herself and three children. Now she probably...
(Detroit Free-Press) – The Detroiter who stunned the world with Olympian walks to his suburban factory job — and stunned himself by attracting gifts of...
(CBS News) – For all its apparent conveniences and perks, city living has never been easy or inexpensive. And income inequality is often most obvious...
DETROIT (USA Today) — After years of huffin’ and puffin’, logging 21 miles by foot to get to and from work, James Robertson can breathe...
WASHINGTON (McClatchy) — Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida went to one of America’s most troubled cities Wednesday to lay out the economic principles for a...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Chris Mathews’ crew showed up this month to demolish one of the thousands of vacant homes destined for demolition...
Corey Williams, ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT (AP) — Protesters on Wednesday called for criminal charges to be brought against two police officers who appear to be...
WAYNE, Mich. (Politico) — President Barack Obama’s State of the Union sales pitch started early, and so did the intraparty fight over what’s expected to...
(USA Today) – The power failure that plunged Detroit’s schools, fire stations, traffic signals and public buildings into darkness Tuesday reflects a larger problem of...
