Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood: See it then and now. Then, in the early 1950s, in one of the most controversial episodes of mass gentrification in Detroit history, the virtually all-white ...

As Detroit civil rights leaders in the 1960s deliberated how to harness white support for the movement, they struck upon an innovation that would strengthen the fight for civil rights across the U.S.

Detroit’s Donut Tours began in January. Tour guides take tourists and locals to the city’s best pastry shops while telling ...

Across the country, the gap between Black and White homeowners is wider today than it was in 1960, before the Fair Housing Act made it illegal to discriminate based on race, national origin and a ...

The iconic voices of female jazz & blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith were honored at Aretha's Jazz Café in Detroit for Black History Month ...

As Detroit civil rights leaders in the 1960s deliberated how to harness white support for the movement, they struck upon an innovation that would strengthen the fight for civil rights across the US.

1. A Monument to Malice. In 2020, James repurposed a brutal chapter in Detroit’s history by honoring the life of Malice Green and more than 1,000 other Black and Brown people who lost their ...

The Black middle class is the largest population segment to leave the city year after year as income levels increase, said Anika Goss, president and CEO of nonprofit Detroit Future City.

DETROIT – During Black History Month this weekend, an exciting musical called Ruby will make its debut in Detroit. It’s the powerful, untold story of an affluent Black couple in Live Oak ...