Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944
Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944
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Once again on the third Monday in January, much of the nation will mark the anniversary of the death of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Countless programs and events will no doubt recall several of his famous speeches from the 1963 March on Washington's "I Have A Dream to his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" delivered in Memphis during the 1968 sanitation workers' strike. In a life of only 39 years, Dr. King captured global attention in his valiant, nonviolent fight for the values of...
To be a person is to have a story to tell," said the Danish author, Isak Dinesen, also known as Karen Blixen. Satori Shakoor knows this firsthand. The playwright, stand-up comedian, singer, and author is the creator and curator of The Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers (TSSOTS), a production of The Society for the Re-institutionalization of Storytelling, a non-profit organization founded by Shakoor in 2012. In the years following the Great Recession of 2008, Shakoor, the city of Detroit, and...
