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Grant program will give cash to veteran businesses
Initiative hopes boosting pre-existing operations will help stabilize communities DETROIT — Nationwide, the media is buzzing about the transformation of Detroit’s downtown and midtown areas — the new...
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Detroit Raw
Mama is dead By Sam Riddle Special to the Michigan Citizen The defiant middle finger hurled at TV cameras by one of the defendants in the Eastside beat-down of the white pickup truck driver who hit a...
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Detroit students athletes dine with, learn from Lions Head Coach Caldwell
[new_royalslider id="39"] On April 16, the Detroit Lions new head coach, Jim Caldwell, sat down to eat with more than 300 Detroit Public School and Educational Achievement Authority student athletes at...
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The land, the people
[caption id="attachment_11570" align="aligncenter" width="615"] Kathina Carey and Robert Pearson ZENOBIA JEFFRIES PHOTO[/caption] Hantz Woodlands begins, community negotiates change By Zenobia Jeffries...
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Hearing exposes horrors of the EAA
[caption id="attachment_11573" align="alignright" width="300"] Former EAA teacher Delbert Glaze (right)[/caption] By T. Kelly The Michigan Citizen LANSING — Children being slapped by staff and thrown...
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Green Living Science teaches DPS students to reduce, reuse, recycle
[caption id="attachment_11620" align="alignleft" width="200"] Lincoln Street Art Park garden with recycled materialsSTEVE FURAY PHOTO[/caption] By Steve Furay| Special to the Michigan Citizen Earth Day...
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Take a tour of 12 Detroit homes for auction
[caption id="attachment_11637" align="alignleft" width="300"] 5500 Kensington[/caption] DETROIT — The East English Village Neighborhood Association is hosting a tour of 12 Detroit Land Bank Homes April...
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Art fair returns to Palmer Park after 30 years
[caption id="attachment_11617" align="alignleft" width="300"] Whitmore and Alwyne[/caption] In 1893, U.S. Thomas Witherell Palmer donated 140 acres of virgin forest to the city of Detroit on the...
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WCCCD’s Executive Dean for International Programs joins Midwest Institute...
David C. Butty, executive dean for international programs and media specialist, who also directs the Wayne County Community College District’s Study Abroad Program, has been elected to the Midwest...
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Youth participants bring spirit to Detroit Food 2014
By Kibib Blount-Dorn Special to the Michigan Citizen Each year the Detroit Food Summit works to include youth in the discussion on building a stronger local food system in Detroit. This year there was...
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The Great Hair Day Escape at the Boggs School
[caption id="attachment_11662" align="alignright" width="360"] Boggs School youth received free haircuts and hair styling[/caption] By Yvette Thompson Special to the Michigan Citizen The Great Hair Day...
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Infant death in Detroit
[caption id="attachment_11690" align="alignleft" width="300"] Loretta Davis (left) and Leseliey Welch PHOTO COURTESY IPH[/caption] “We have babies dying before they are one-year-old who don’t have to...
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Detroit Raw
[caption id="attachment_11693" align="aligncenter" width="615"] Joe Utash COURTESY PHOTO[/caption] Blowing Utash cash By Sam Riddle Special to the Michigan Citizen An unemployed guy gives police a...
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Progressive actions
Week 56 of the occupation By Shea Howell Special to the Michigan Citizen Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr has offered almost no structural change in his proposals to move the city toward good...
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McCormick seeks to disqualify two for residency
[caption id="attachment_11700" align="aligncenter" width="615"] Burt Leland in front of Bentler St. home[/caption] By T. Kelly The Michigan Citizen DETROIT — Monique Baker McCormick is challenging the...
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Two Detroits? Gentrification. talk gets real
[new_royalslider id="40"] The heated conversation about gentrification in Detroit came to the Jam Handy building April 26. Hosted by The Michigan Citizen, a panel discussed the challenges,...
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‘Michigan law carries badge and stigma of slavery’
[caption id="attachment_11788" align="alignright" width="147"] Judge George Caram Steeh[/caption] By T. Kelly The Michigan Citizen DETROIT — Attorneys argued April 29 before U.S District Court Judge...
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Anti-EM forces shut down center city
[new_royalslider id="41"] Staff report Protesters against Emergency Management shut down Jefferson and Woodward in the heart of the city May Day, which went largely unreported by corporate media,...
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Ride with muralist Hubert Massey!
[caption id="attachment_11733" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Hubert Massey mural COURTESY IMAGE[/caption] Working in largest scale — in fresco and mosaic like Michelangelo — Hubert Massey projected...
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We are Warriors!
[caption id="attachment_11810" align="alignright" width="288"] Donnah LasterPHOTO COURTESY LUMUMBAREYNOLDS.COM[/caption] Carrying the mace for 52,844 days By Donnah Laster, M.B.A. Wayne State...
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