Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944
Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944
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Sometimes people just need a hand up to help them navigate life a little better. For thirty years, the Dominican Literacy Center in Detroit has been offering a hand up to local adults struggling to read. Some dropped out of high school when they were teenagers. Some were pulled out of school amid family crisis. Some have a high school diploma yet are unable to read the instructions on their prescription bottle. But many just want to accomplish the task of earning their GED, or General Education...
LANSING -- Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer took aggressive action to protect Michigan kids from the harmful effects of vaping. These actions include making Michigan the first state in the nation to ban flavored nicotine vaping products. After her Chief Medical Executive, Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, made a finding that youth vaping constitutes a public health emergency, Governor Whitmer ordered the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to issue emergency rules to ban the sale of flavored...
On Sunday, September 15, the National Congress of Black Women will celebrate its 35th annual brunch in the Thurgood Marshall Room of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington D.C. The non-profit dedicated to the educational, political, economic and cultural development of Black women, will also honor the 50th anniversary of Shirley Chisholm's election to Congress. "We in the National Congress of Black Women consider it an honor to tell the stories of Black women and to remember them at our...
State Representative Jewell Jones, along with along with Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, and State Senator Betty Jean Alexander met with residents at a town hall in Inkster on August 26 to discuss issues of importance to seniors in the community. Also on hand for the meeting were Kari West representing The Senior Alliance, Denise Champagne representing the Inkster Aging Commission and representatives from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. N...
The D Town Bucking Tigerrettes is a hip hop majorette Dance team, led and coached by Amber Lynn Hunter. The D Town Bucking Tigerrettes have been practicing, working, and bonding all Summer. Coach Amber has been going all out when it comes to making dancing machines out of her young ladies. Practice made perfect for DBT's annual showcase. This year titled the DBT Experience, was held in Coach Amber's spacious lawn. An experience was exactly what it was. Cars lined Ellsworth Street for food,...
The National Newspaper Publishers Association began a series on the transatlantic slave trade. The series started in conjunction with the annual United Nations International Day of Remembrance. With the observance of the first African landing in America, some question whether it's the 400th or 500th anniversary. Historians point out that the 400th anniversary is the 400th year of the Anglo-centric history of Africans in the Americas. "Dating the history of Africans in North America to 400 years...
