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The Downriver Delta Community Development Corporation (DDCDC) held its annual Legislative Breakfast on March 23, 2018. The event was held at the Melvindale Civic Center and included breakfast and an overview of the organization and its projects. The roughly 90 local residents who were in attendance responded positively to the event's guest speaker, Wayne County Executive, Warren Evans. Evans addressed the attendees on public service, the functions of government and the need for regional...
Nestle food conglomerate is the largest food company in the world, with over 450 manufacturing centers in 80 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland its facilities span six continents. Nestle has also been exposed and criticized, perhaps, more than any other corporation in the world. And its water bottling industry has Michigan environmentalists and concerned citizens outraged and seeking justice for what they perceive as blatant theft of the state's most precious and indispensable resource. Rec...
All you have to do is crack open a history book, or sit with one of our experienced elders, and you will learn about the many sacrifices made by people of all races in order to ensure Black people obtained the uninhibited right to vote. No other group of people in America have benefited more from the sacrifices made by so many people who fought, bled and died fighting for our freedom and the right to vote, as Black people have. The freedom Black Americans experience today came with a...
Training will occur at all Starbucks company-owned stores and will apply to nearly 175,000 U.S. partners (employees) Curriculum to be designed by nationally recognized experts and will be available for other companies to use (Black PR Wire) PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ: SBUX) today announced it will be closing its more than 8,000 company-owned stores in the United States on the afternoon of May 29 to conduct racial-bias education geared toward preventing...
On Wednesday, March 28, many exceptional students attending Robichaud High School in Dearborn Heights, got a chance to express their concerns to local elected officials in the school library. The issues, chosen by the students for the event, ranged from peer pressure to school safety and included such topics as global warming, substance abuse, and school finances, among others. The event was an NAACP Forum titled "Let's Talk," and was held in conjunction with the NAACP of Western Wayne County...
Albert Harper is a man who is known by more than the name he came into the Earth with. Some call him Crazy, others call him The Beast. But the title Mr. Harper is most accustomed to is the Exercise Bandit. Harper is a River Rouge resident who is just as funny as he is fast. The Exercise Bandit is a man who's been around the country to promote health and physical fitness in the youth. He takes his job as seriously as a heart attack. A fight that didn't go his way inspired Mr. Harper to take his...
