Detroit Entrepreneur Week, the city’s leading small business conference and festival celebrates National Small Business Week, from May 2 to May 7, by hosting a series of activities ranging from panel discussions, free workshops, networking events and entrepreneurial showcases.
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Snyder Will Drink Flint Tap Water for 30 Days…
So Gov. Snyder says both he and his wife Sue will be drinking Flint tap water for the next 30 days to prove to residents that it is safe, according to a story that appeared this afternoon in the Detroit Free Press.
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Why Summer Jobs Matter for Detroit Kids
On Tuesday morning, Mayor Mike Duggan will be holding a press conference to announce a summer youth employment program that will be designed not merely to give kids something to do, but to help bend the arc of their future toward success.
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Michigan Chronicle Turns 80: A Look Back
It was a bright lights, big city moment for a 24-year-old man born in subtle Shelbyville, Tennessee and raised in sleepy Savannah, Georgia.
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Mayor Duggan, Rev. Jesse Jackson look to Detroit’s Minority Contractors for more Demo and Rehab
The City of Detroit’s blight removal program – already the largest in the nation – is poised to expand by at least 50% over the next two years, and several neighborhood-focused programs are fueling a rise in home rehabilitation across the city.
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Palmer Park Art Fair Celebrates the Old and Focuses on the New
This year’s Palmer Park Art Fair “celebrates the old, while focusing on the new.” The fair had been a popular annual event in the 1970s and was revived three years ago.
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Detroit 300 Protecting and Serving Detroit’s Most Vulnerable
When a 90-year-old woman was raped and brutalized on Detroit’s eastside, neighbors and citizens across Detroit determined that rampant crime crippling communities had to come to an end, and it had to happen sooner than later.
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[DETROIT] Nicholas Hood Sr. was a Bridge Builder
The late Nicholas Hood Sr. was dedicated to creating a city where racial unity was possible. His historic 1965 election to the Detroit Common Council was as magical as it was masterful. Hood died on Sunday. He was 91.
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Detroit Woman Showers Detroit Infants With Love
Whose problem is it that more than 59 percent of Detroit children live in poverty?
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Show:UP! – The Best Dinner Party Ever Pops UP in Detroit
We Break For “Creative” Business with Show:UP! Creative Directors, William Bryant Miles and Nickolas Vaughan, Creative Director:
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