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  • Legislative Update With State Representative Tyrone Carter

    Xaiver Jones|Mar 11, 2021

    4 was more than a year in time. 2020 was a thing that happened to the world. 2020 happened and most of the world didn't see it coming. Individuals like Tyrone Carter didn't have time to see it coming. His duty as Michigan State Representative is to defend the unforeseen punches of 2020, and every second behind it. Carter has done what he could in 2020, and has thoroughly moved on to the present. The District Six Representative's hands are full with what 2021 has to offer. Tyrone's schedule...

  • Gary Hunter - Publisher of The Shot News

    Dominique Madden, Telegram Contributing Reporter|Mar 4, 2021

    Gary Hunter grew up at Bassett and Visger in Southwest Detroit and have traveled around the world. He has shown us the world through the lens of his camera. He is a graduate of Western High School in Detroit, earned a Bachelors Degree from Shaw College in Alabama and he has taken classes at Wayne County Community College and Wayne State University. TELEGRAM -How did you begin taking photos? I was going to school for law and I needed an elective. Photography was a 3 – 4 hour credit class that I c...

  • Russell Hughes: A Black Engineer, Father & Football Coach

    Xaiver Jones, Telegram Media Specialist|Feb 25, 2021

    Rome wasn’t built in a day, and the men and women who built it did not learn the skills overnight. These people centuries ago belonged to a special, underrecognized, but omnipotent group of individuals. This group still exists and thrives in the world we inhibit today. Engineers are the aforementioned club that has built Rome, and everything else around it. It did not happen in a day, but Russell Hughes has earned the title of engineer. He grew up spending time across River Rouge and Ecorse. R...

  • The Golden Grip Of Doctor Ingrid Wilson-Johnson

    Xaiver Jones, Telegram Media Specialist|Feb 11, 2021

    In 2021 I will be twenty-eight years old. I've had my driver's license since I was seventeen years old. I wrote my first article for the Telegram Newspaper ten years ago. There are sixteen years of formal, and accredited education under my belt. My experiences are grains in the bottom of an hourglass compared to Dr. Ingrid Wilson-Johnson. Dr. Wilson-Johnson's life started in River Rouge, in an era many say the city will never get back. Dr. Wilson-Johnson had a long journey to become a doctor....