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9-Year-Old’s Lemonade Stand Raises Nearly $4k For Detroit
In an update to a story we linked to a few weeks ago from The Grio, a 9-year-old Detroit boy who raised $1,200 for his struggling city has now raised nearly $4,000. The Grio reporter Jay Scott Smith...
View ArticleTracy Reese, Michelle Obama Dress Designer, Shines at NYFW
New York Fashion Week has officially launched and African American designers like Tracy Reese are already making a splash. The Detroit native got lots of press during the Democratic National...
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Detroit Police Chief Suspended After Mistress’ Crazy Tweet
From CBS News Detroit Mayor Dave Bing suspended the city’s police chief Tuesday amid allegations of a sexual relationship with another officer. This is the second time in two years that a Detroit...
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Big Sean Showcases His Style in GQ
Detroit rapper Big Sean showed his more fashionable side in a spread with GQ. Usually pictured in a t-shirt and jeans, Big Sean layered up for the magazine latest issue’s photoshoot, looking quite...
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Detroit Museum Presents 44 Busts of Obama
44 contemporary African-American artists like Philemona Williamson, whose work is pictured, employ various styles and mediums to create colorful busts of President Barack Obama for the Charles H....
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The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Black Cover Girl
Donyale Luna is not a household name outside of the fashion world, but her contributions to the industry paved the way for those brown faces you do know. The leggy, owl-eyed beauty was discovered on...
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Big Sean Has Plans For New Non-Profit Organization
G.O.O.D. Music rapper, Big Sean, has announced that he has launched the Sean Anderson Foundation, which is aimed at assisting school-aged children in Detroit. “The mission of the Sean Anderson...
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5 Money Lessons From Big Sean’s ‘Guap’
It pretty much goes without saying, but Big Sean had a monster year in 2012. Sean released the critically-acclaimed Detroit mixtape, featuring hits like the Key Wane-produced “Higher,” and “24 Karats...
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Hip-Hop Entrepreneur Vaughan Taylor Merges Music and Tech with Air Playd
Photo Credit: Doug Combe Michigan native and current St. Louis resident Vaughan Taylor is bringing something brand new to hip hop with Air Playd. Instead of creating a traditional video for a new song,...
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Dr. Detroit? Mayor Bing Releases New 50-Year Plan to Revitalize City
After two years of research and community input, Mayor Dave Bing unveiled a 50-year plan for revitalizing Detroit Wednesday that includes relaxing rules for startup companies, the Associated Press...
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Kwame Kilpatrick Spends Weekend in Jail
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick spent the weekend in jail for violating his parole. He left the Michigan Corrections Department facility in Detroit Monday morning as he was locked up since Friday...
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Oldest African-American Person Alive Dies at 113
Louisiana Hines, born in April 1899, died at the age of 113 late last week. The Detroit resident died last Friday and had the distinction of being one of the oldest people in the world. “She would talk...
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Jazz Trumpeter Donald Byrd Dies At 80
Legendary trumpet player, Donald Byrd, is dead at 80 years old. Renown musician, Alex Bugnon, who is also Byrd’s nephew, confirmed the death. “Let’s remember Donald as a one of a kind pioneer of the...
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“My Brother Marvin” Play on Singer Marvin Gaye Debuts in Detroit
Zeola “Sweetsie” Gaye, sister of legendary singer Marvin Gaye, gets the chance to tell the story of her brother in the play, “My Brother Marvin,” which will debut in Detroit, Michigan this week. The...
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Missing Detroit Woman’s Death Ruled a Homicide
A Detroit woman’s body was found in an abandoned house in the city last week. The 23-year-old went missing on New Year’s Day in Detroit after dropping off her son at her father and stepmother’s house...
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Kwame Kilpatrick Found Guilty in Federal Trial
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was found guilty today of multiple counts of racketeering and extortion in a federal court, the Huffington Post reports. A jury took 15 days to decide that...
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Could Emergency Financial Management in Detroit Hurt Blacks?
Mayor Dave Bing (at head of the table) delivered his first budget address to City Council April 13 outlining his plan for the 2010-2011 fiscal year. Detroit’s financial problems have become so great...
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Despite Protests, Emergency Financial Manager to Take Over Detroit
Governor Rick Snyder appointed Kevyn Orr to the position of emergency financial manager of Detroit on Thursday, but many residents of the predominantly black city feel the appointment of an EFM will...
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Detroit Homeowner Threatens Potential Squatters With Gunshots
If your home is vacant in Detroit chances are someone will treat it like their home. Nothing could me more frightening then to come home and find that someone else is cooking your food, and lounging in...
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Detroit Woman Gets Infection from Illegal Butt Injection
A Detroit woman arranged to get a $1,100 illegal butt injection at a hotel and contracted an infection, Newsone reports. On April 5th, Keke Onpoint went into septic shock and was admitted to the...
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