How Detroit’s Birwood Wall, Built to Divide Black and White Residents, Still Creates Racial Barriers
A new story from NBC News and Bridge Detroit titled “Built to Keep Black from White” explores the history of Detroit's Birwood Wall. The wall,...
Feedom Freedom Growers and Taproot Sanctuary Growing Community Care Through Gardening
Rooted shares stories about land tending, community healing and regeneration happening right here on the ancestral land of the Indigenous Anishinaabe, the...
National Investigation of Native American Boarding Schools Hits Home in Michigan
After the continued discovery of mass unmarked graves at several Canadian indigenous boarding schools, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb...
Author Clint Smith’s New Book “How the Word Is Passed” Interrogates America’s History of Slavery
With the recent discussions surrounding critical race theory, Americans are debating how to approach the country's history of racism and oppression. “For so...
Juneteenth Marks Second Anniversary for Free Black Women’s Library-Detroit
On Saturday, the Free Black Women’s Library-Detroit will be hosting a free outdoor book exchange at The Tuxedo Project. The event...
Critical Race Theory: What It Is, What It Isn’t and Why It Matters
Many GOP lawmakers see critical race theory as something that promotes "anti-American" ideas, in some cases going as far as to ban the...
What We Can Learn From Tulsa, 100 Years Later
It’s been 100 years since the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, where a white mob viciously destroyed the Black neighborhood of...
Officials Look for Ways to Fix Michigan’s Juvenile Justice System
There’s a new push to rethink juvenile justice in Michigan. Last week, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive order creating the...
Grappling With the Tarnished Legacies of Former Icons
An advisory committee at the University of Michigan has recommended that the university remove the name of Fielding Yost from...
Antisemitic Hate and Israeli Geopolitical Criticism Are Two Very Different Things
In response to the recent conflict in Israel and Palestine, there's been a rise in Islamophobia and antisemitism in America....
Black Americans Have Always Been Excluded from Second Amendment, Says Author Carol Anderson
The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution states that Americans and well-regulated militias have the right to keep and...
Preserving the Legacy of Sarah Elizabeth Ray, Who Paved the Way for Desegregation in Detroit, U.S.
In their 2020 documentary titled “Sarah Elizabeth Ray: Detroit’s Other Rosa Parks,” Desiree Cooper and Aaron Schillinger tell the story...