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Benson, city plan rec center giveaway
[caption id="attachment_12906" align="alignleft" width="300"] Senior exercise class at Lipke COURTESY IMAGE[/caption] ‘We don’t need another church’ community says By T. Kelly The Michigan Citizen...
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Water choices
By Shea Howell Week 65 of the occupation The pursuit of profits is endangering the health and wellbeing of everyone in Detroit. What Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, Jones Day and the corporate powers they...
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WATCH: Detroit Water Shutoffs documentary
http://vimeo.com/99499580 “Located in the Great Lakes Basin, (Detroit is) a major city with whole segments of the community with zero access to fresh water,” says one activist who appears in Katy...
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Historian to conduct Black history tour of Detroit
By Steve Furay Special to the Michigan Citizen Landmarks of Detroit’s past greatness are hidden throughout the city. Some were paved over during eras of redevelopment; others were demolished after...
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U.S. Marine veteran sees ‘education as the way to the future’
Sgt. Lawrence Brooks and other U.S. veterans were recently recognized for their educational achievement and service to the country during the WCCCD 45th Annual Commencement Exercises at Ford Field....
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WATCH: Congressman John Conyers addresses Detroit water shutoffs
http://youtu.be/J5qMtWkvGLo At a news conference held in the headquarters of water activist organization, The Detroit Water Brigade, U.S. Congressman John Conyers said that water was a human right and...
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“Shame on you”: Maureen Taylor rips WDIV reporter
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x213ar9_detroit-water_news The United Nations, international and national media is covering the water shut-off crisis in Detroit but local media, including WDIV’s Hank...
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Charity Mahouna Hicks joins the ancestors
[caption id="attachment_12965" align="alignleft" width="194"] Charity Mahouna Hicks[/caption] Justice warrior Charity Mahouna Hicks joined the ancestors, July 8, 2014. Hicks was hit by a vehicle in New...
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Sheila Cockrel offered Detroiters this solution to the water shutoffs
[caption id="attachment_12968" align="alignright" width="300"] Sheila Cockrel interview June 29 on WDIV with host Devin Scillian[/caption] Former city councilwoman Sheila Cockrel offered Detroiters...
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Detroit Raw
[caption id="attachment_12980" align="aligncenter" width="615"] 2-year-old Kamiya French; Chicago victim’s family consolesCOURTESY PHOTOS[/caption] We hate one another By Sam Riddle Special to the...
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Beyond the bottom line
By Shea Howell Special to the Michigan Citizen Week 66 of the occupation The decision by Kevyn Orr/ Gov. Rick Snyder to make the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department more marketable by shutting off...
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WATER: City officials quiet on shut-offs; DWSD dysfunction victimizes many
[caption id="attachment_13001" align="alignright" width="300"] Consumers line up to pay STAFF PHOTO[/caption] By T. Kelly DETROIT — Although Gov. Rick Snyder and Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr promised...
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Silent on water shut-offs?
Are you satisfied with the way the officials who run the city — Mayor Mike Duggan, Detroit City Council, Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr and Governor Snyder — have handled what is now an international...
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New app allows Detroiters to find small Black-owned businesses around them
Staff report Leaders and thinkers from Marcus Garvey to James Clingman have identified how Black neighborhoods could be transformed rapidly if billions of African American consumer dollars were spent...
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Detroit pastors demand stop to water shutoffs
[caption id="attachment_12994" align="alignright" width="300"] Lila CabbilCOURTESY PHOTO[/caption] Clergy members call on Gov. Snyder to create effective affordability plan Staff report DETROIT — A...
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Legendary journalist Herb Boyd to chronicle Detroit’s Black history
[caption id="attachment_13021" align="alignright" width="359"] Herb presents Maya Angelou with a copy of his biography of James Baldwin at the Schomburg Center in Harlem in 2012. COURTESY...
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Buckets and balance sheets
This summer, the real estate industry celebrated as Detroit neared the tipping point for real estate prices. The downtown rental market neared $2 per square foot. At $2 a square foot, financing gets a...
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Water main gushes while EM continues water shutoffs
http://youtu.be/uvodFC3_heo By Phreddy Wischusen The Michigan Citizen On July 10, nine protesters, most of them elderly, were arrested protesting the continuation of what they called "draconian" water...
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Water war heats up
[caption id="attachment_13034" align="alignright" width="300"] Patrick Driscoll, one of nine water rights protesters arrested outside of Homrich, July 10.ANDREW MILLER PHOTO[/caption] Nine people,...
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Artists and activists gather in Southwest Detroit for water shutoff awareness
[caption id="attachment_12998" align="aligncenter" width="615"] Antonio Rafael of The Raiz Up leads a group discussion.STEVE FURAY PHOTO[/caption] By Steve Furay Special to the Michigan Citizen...
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