Detroit
Tired of margarine, janitors demand health care as their “butter”
March 12, 2010Detroit janitors fight foraffordable health care as key contract issue. " I'm tired of Parkay, I want butter too."
Read moreMiami lessons: civil rights, recounts and tea-bags
December 11, 2009Before the civil rights movement burst onto the national scene, Bobbi Graff and people like her were leading struggles against lynching and police brutality and for desegregation.
Read moreRemembering Dave Moore
November 11, 2009DETROIT - Dave Moore, a veteran of the Ford Hunger March and a founder of the United Auto Workers union who helped shape the history of this city, died here Oct. 26, at the age of...
Read moreDetroit is Haiti: unforgivably Black
October 21, 2009Time Magazine has decided to zero in on Detroit; here's a reaction from one lifelong Detroiter.
Read moreDetroit mayoral candidates pressed on foreclosure crisis
February 12, 2009DETROIT — Three of this city’s zip codes are among the nation's top 25 for number of foreclosures. So it's not hard to see why the housing crisis and jobs are pressing concerns as Detroiters prepare...
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