Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944
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Detroit, MI – District Four will be the second of Detroit's seven districts to establish a Community Advisory Council (CAC). This is thanks to the effort of community college professor and local activist Scotty Boman who spent his summer collecting 1,570 signatures on a petition to create a Community Advisory Council for Detroit's fourth District. Only 1,141 signatures must be validated for the petitions to be approved. Boman, filed the petitions on Tuesday October 1st following a brief news c...
American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, along with Australian Peter Norman, during the award ceremony of the 200 m race at the Mexican Olympic games. During the awards ceremony, Smith (center) and Carlos protested against racial discrimination: they went barefoot on the podium and listened to their anthem bowing their heads and raising a fist with a black glove in Mexico City, Mexico, 1968 . Their raised fists were as legendary as they were controversial. Tommie Smith and John Carlos,...
DETROIT - Members of the Democracy Defense League drove down from Flint, Michigan because they say this environmental justice thing is critical. They call themselves the Water Worriers of Flint. They take everything into account; from the PFAS, land, water and air. They have been in Federal Court fighting for the rights of the people. We have been 'Boots on The Ground' for five years, since day one when the water problem stated in Flint. Flint is still broken because the infrastructure is not...
A bra and panties lay on the sidewalk near Fort Street Presbyterian Church. To any passerby, it would likely not have significant meaning other than to cause one to look the other direction. But to a young woman known only as Liz, it was a sight that stimulated her emotions. "To me, I see human pain in that," said Liz. "I see what happened to this woman." Liz is a survivor of human trafficking. Fort Street Presbyterian Church was the location for an awareness seminar on human trafficking on Satu...
I watched a group of young people at the Annual NAACP State Convention this past weekend and I began to ponder the question, why are they activist? Were they born with the Activist gene or did they become activist because of the associations that they have had. After thinking about it on the ride home from Saginaw, I decided that it is probably a combination of both. I watched the young people stand and speak so eloquently about things that they want to change in their communities and in the col...
On the first anniversary of his imprisonment, Bill Cosby received a visit from Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., the renown civil rights leader and lead-member of the famed political prisoner group known as the Wilmington Ten. Chavis, who is the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the trade organization that represents the Black Press of America, joined Cosby's longtime crisis manager Andrew Wyatt for a visit with Cosby. It was Chavis' third visit with the fallen...
Members of the Adult and Youth Branchs of the Michigan NAACP showed ther support for the members of the UAW that are currently on strike.. The participates took time from their 83rd Annual Michigan State Conference that was held in Saginaw. They were at the Saginaw GM Powertrain Plant....
