Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944
Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944
Sorted by date Results 1 - 8 of 8
LANSING. -- Governor Gretchen Whitmer today encouraged young women in Michigan high schools to take advantage of an opportunity to explore their aptitude for cybersecurity and computer science by trying to solve the challenges of the 2019 Girls Go CyberStart program. The cybersecurity industry is one of the fastest growing professions in the country, with the demand for skilled candidates outpacing the current supply. There is also a large gender gap in the workplace where only 11 percent of... Full story
New York, NY– The Rainbow PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund will host its 22nd Annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit, February 20 – February 22, 2019 at The Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, 811 7th Ave., 3rd Floor in New York City. The Wall Street Project Economic Summit is themed, "400 Years Later: Closing the Wealth Gap, Expanding Opportunity." It will feature sessions on closing the wealth gap, consumer protection, the state of telecom, the tech industries, div... Full story
Laura Zain has always loved animals. As a child, her parents always had cats and dogs at home. Zain recalls one spring day when she was in the car with her mother approaching a red light at the intersection at Plymouth and Farmington Roads in Livonia. They noticed a small flock of Canadian Geese and their goslings walking across the intersection. She was only nine years old, but Zain remembers jumping from the car in an attempt to help the gees across the intersection. All traffic was stopped. S... Full story
Statistically, the residents of the city of Detroit are some of the poorest in the nation. Detroiters are also subjected to some of the highest auto insurance rates in the United States where motorists are routinely required to pay more than $3000 dollars a year to insure their vehicles. These high rates have a negative and reverberating effect on the city's economy by reducing the amount of money residents can spend on food, clothing, utilities, housing, and other goods and services. It is the... Full story
Where do you get your news from? I'm not talking about news outlets that only tell stories about people in your community when they commit a crime. I'm talking about news outlets that tell stories about positive news going on in your community. Aley Haley, writer of the acclaimed book, 'Roots', lived by six words, "Find the good and praise it." Each week, the Telegram Newspaper strives to share information about the good people are doing while reporting on positive stories that are happening in... Full story
Victoria Shaw, a Black girl approximately 15 years old, went missing Monday, Feb. 11, in West Hartford, Connecticut. Teandah Slater, Black and also only 15 years old, was reported missing on Thursday, Feb. 7, from Noble Square in Chicago. Areall Murchinson, a 16-year old Black girl, was last seen near the 200 block of West 111th Place, according to a community alert from Chicago police. The three are the most recent to make the dubious and heart-breaking list of missing Black girls – p... Full story
rom the outside looking in Wayne Memorial High Schools seems like any other high school you can find from around the nation. It has all of the general features of a run of the mill secondary institution, but one thing that sets Wayne Memorial High School apart from the average high school is their Champions of Wayne program. The Champions of Wayne program is a non-profit organization centered in the Wayne-Westland community that provides all participating students a chance to earn $200, just by... Full story
Becoming a well-known hip-hop rapper involves displaying creative genius and talent on the stage and in recording studios. Unfortunately, for some young aspiring hip-hop artists, unjust confrontations with law enforcement appear to be inevitable. This is currently the case with the Grammy-nominated rapper professionally known as 21 Savage. Based now in Atlanta, Georgia, 21 Savage was born in London in the United Kingdom on October 22, 1992. The 26-year-old talented rapper's name at birth was Sheyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph. He immigrated legally to... Full story
