Whitsett, a Detroit Democrat who represents the west side of Detroit as part of her state House district, accused Denzel McCampbell, a former city charger commissioner, of using her vote to “scare ...

Nicholas Francis Giroux, 37, pleaded guilty in February to first-degree murder and use of a firearm in a crime of violence for the June 17, 2024, shooting of 27-year-old Isaiah Olugbemi, a rising ...

President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook, one of the seven governors of the Federal Reserve, is the kind of ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Black high school student who was suspended for wearing locs, per BET.

The labor group, Michigan Laborers’ District Council (LiUNA), represents over 15,000 members who build the state’s roads, bridges, transit and energy sources. LiUNA leaders in Michigan credited Benson ...

Detroiters woke up Tuesday to see the city’s new Emerald Alert system in action for the very first time. Within an hour of its launch, the program proved its value. It helped locate 74-year-old ...

A proposed constitutional amendment to boost school funding by taxing wealthy residents more is gathering signatures despite its petition language being held up by a state panel.

You don’t have to be Black to be horrified by the depiction of slavery in the museum, any more than you have to be Jewish to be horrified by the murder of 6 million Jews as depicted in the United ...

Dozens of FEMA employees have reportedly been placed on leave after hundreds of staffers signed a letter criticizing the ...

It dismissed scholarship on the legacies of slavery in the Texas Revolution, ridiculed art that reckons with the Middle Passage, and condemned programs that document systemic exclusion in immigration ...

In most cases, the churches and church leaders did not condemn slavery until the 17th century. The five major countries that dominated slavery and the slave trade in the New World were either Catholic ...

The Gilbert Family Foundation is making a bold statement in Detroit’s commitment to economic equity with an investment of $4 ...