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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This Michigan Tire Shop Owner Says He Doesn’t Service Black or “Ghetto” People
The owner of a tire shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is attempting to defend himself after saying he doesn’t want the business of blacks and “ghetto people.”
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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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Some Juvenile Offenders Deserve A Shot At Redemption
Murder is hard to forgive. For those directly affected by the crime, forgiveness can sometimes become impossible.
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The Problem with The Detroit Education Commission Idea
The idea is to try and assume the best about peoples’ motives, even when you haven’t necessarily been given reason to do so.
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Values Partnerships and Walker’s Legacy Announce Partnership to Increase Pipeline of Women of Color on Shark Tank
Programming and resources will support the nation’s fastest growing group of entrepreneurs during Values Partnerships’ 2016 diversity casting tour for ABC’s Shark Tank.
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