Detroit

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/10/2023
  

  I Grew Up in a Black Liberationist Commune

  From 1973 to the early 2000s, the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church operated a communal home in a Detroit apartment building, dedicated to the collective project of replacing received notions of Black inferiority with a sense of possibility. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  11/17/2022
  

  Immigrant Merchants and Law-and-Order Politics in Detroit

  by Kenneth Alyass

  The Chaldean community of Detroit became a significant middleman-minority through the operation of small stores in working-class and majority-Black neighborhoods. As white flight and disinvestment created increasingly dire conditions, they also became a constituency for aggressive policing. 

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• SOURCE: WDET
  7/22/2022
  

  Preserving Detroit's Native History

  Karen Marrero of Wayne State University discusses how oral traditions have kept indigenous histories alive even as many physical markers of that history have been destroyed. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  4/21/2022
  

  For Black Detroiters, the City's History of Mutual Aid is as Relevant as Ever

  by Nate File

  "The mutual aid movement here is steeped in history and working to build the city that politicians and private actors have promised for decades but failed to deliver."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/7/2022
  

  Adults Support Empowering Youth – Until Youth Dissent

  by Dara Walker

  American youth are seldom credited for having a clear understanding of the policies that affect their lives. COVID safety walkouts are the latest example of student activism to be dismissed.

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  1/25/2022
  

  Greening Detroit's History

  by Brandon Ward

  Urban historians are starting to recognize something that urban activists grasped in the 1960s: power and inequality are reflected in cities' environments. 

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• SOURCE: Deadline
  10/26/2021
  

  Detroit Bankruptcy Documentary Wins Library of Congress Prize

  Ken Burns, who collaborated with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on the selection, called "Gradually, Then Suddenly" a "complex, nuanced, layered" examination of the city's financial crisis and the political divide between Detroit and the state of Michigan. 

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• SOURCE: Click on Detroit
  9/14/2021
  

  Detroit Historical Society Launches Interactive Walking tour of Historic Black Bottom District

  Black Bottom was a predominately Black neighborhood in Detroit that was demolished for redevelopment in the late 1950s, and was replaced with the Lafayette Park district and I-375.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  4/30/2021
  

  Police and the License to Kill

  by Matthew D. Lassiter

  The history of the Detroit Police Department shows that police reforms won't reduce killing as long as departments can set priorities that result in racially targeted and discretionary enforcement and are allowed to investigate and sanction the conduct of their own officers. 

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• SOURCE: Variety
  2/8/2021
  

  Mary Wilson, Co-Founder of the Supremes, Dies at 76

  Mary Wilson was sometimes overshadowed by Diana Ross in the popular Motown group, but her peers recognized her contributions to the Supremes and popular music. 

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• SOURCE: Detroit Free Press
  9/7/2020
  

  Rosie the Riveters gathered on Labor Day to Honor the Working Women of WWII

  "The Rosies and veterans then told stories from the front lines. One Rosie said she was shocked at the idea of wearing pants to work. A veteran recalled being shot down from the sky in northern Italy and receiving notes from Rosies back home full of profanities toward Hitler."

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/27/2020
  

  Detroit Students Have a Constitutional Right to Literacy, Court Rules

  A major ruling in a lawsuit involving the Detroit public schools comes at a time when school shutdowns are expected to affect poor children most adversely.

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• SOURCE: The Jurist
  4/25/2020
  

  Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Students Have the Right to Basic Minimum Education

  The decision in a suit brought by Detroit students against the state of Michigan referenced a number of historic cases and revives the question of whether inequality among school systems violates equal protection under the Constitution.

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• SOURCE: Michigan News
  10/18/19
  

  Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Heather Ann Thompson sees Detroit as central for carceral reform

  We’re poised for positive change with incredible energy to make our criminal justice system more just, and nowhere are we seeing that more than in Detroit. 

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• SOURCE: AP
  4/22/19
  

  New Website aims to preserve Detroit’s civil rights history

  Rise Up Detroit is scheduled to officially launch with a kickoff event May 14 at Wayne State’s David Adamany Undergraduate Library. The program is expected to include a discussion with civil rights veterans and experts.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/3/`9
  

  Two prizewinning books detail slavery in the north: Washington’s fugitive, Detroit’s forgotten crime

  The authors detail the life of a woman who refused to be a possession of the nation’s first president and the Michigan city’s troubled past.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9-10-18
  

  Police killings of 3 black men left a mark on Detroit’s history more than 50 years ago

  by Jeffrey Horner

  "I believe these events show that police brutality today, perpetrated disproportionately against blacks in urban areas, is more of a continuation of historic patterns than a set of novel events.”

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• SOURCE: Medium
  3/8/18
  

  From Segregation to Gentrification

  by Mike Green

  Lessons from Seattle and Detroit: How city policies and NIMBYism lead to unimpeded market forces displacing poor people of color.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  10-1-17
  

  Tiya Miles is mapping forgotten corners of slave history

  The MacArthur "genius" grant winner and author of "Ties That Bind” is digging into the history of slavery in Detroit.

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• SOURCE: mlivecom
  9-12-17
  

  University of Michigan professor says Detroit's early history 'mired in a slave past’

  Tiya Miles’s op ed on the subject, “The South Doesn’t Own Slavery,” drew more than 500 comments in the NYT.