Do you like Popeyes Chicken? If so you will be excited to know that a Popeyes Chicken location on Detroit's east side was giving its cus...

There are some jobs, schoolteacher immediately comes to mind, where the person so employed is responsible not just for doing his or her job ...

How often do you go out to eat? I used to do so at least once a week. But with the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting quarantine orders I...

A downtown Detroit elementary school has recently won a chess state championship. Again. I am sure that this must be surprising to those who...

The city of Detroit, my hometown, can be akin to the Wild Wild West when it comes to basic things such as the buying, selling, renting, an...

I have always enjoyed playing chess. I wish I were better at it. One person who is better at it than I and likely to improve more in the f...

It is a matter of increasing frustration, annoyance and black humor to me that almost every time we get more than two or three inches of r...

You know, if you're going to be a criminal it's probably not the smartest thing to do to let everyone know that you're a crimi...

Racism isn't just about committing genocide or hurling racial slurs in a never ending Tourette's spasm. It's also about refusi...

Because many of my older relatives, friends, and people I know in Detroit grew up in racially defined horrible poverty and segregation wit...

The Detroit True Crime Chronicles edited by Scott Burnstein Jimmy Hoffa. Demetrius Holloway. Young Boys Incorporated (YBI). The A-Team. ...

If you think that certain people are by nature inferior then stories like this won't bother you all that much. But for the rest of us ...

In the movie Leaves of Grass a gentle religious character explains her belief that the world is broken, but that it's up t...

Some people make a strong argument for government intervention, whether in the form of tax breaks, incentives, subsidies, or outright cash...

I don't want it sold to children! That's an infamia. In my city, we would keep the traffic in the dark people, the coloreds. They...

Detroit is making something of a comeback. Or to be more precise, certain areas of Detroit are making something of a comeback. The downtow...

I don't have much to say about this incident. On Detroit's east side one man armed with a gun tried to rob another man. The would ...

One of the greatest challenges in a post-civil rights movement society is to translate black political power into black economic power. I ...

Detroit directed by Kathyrn Bigelow The 1967 Detroit riot or rebellion started less than a mile from where I would later grow up. In se...

There has been a lot of ink written about street harassment, which is usually defined as looking at a woman in a way she doesn't like ...