Detroit physician Herbert C. Smitherman Jr. is one of the 10 finalists for the inaugural J.H. Kanter Prize for physicians who have dedicated their medical careers to enhancing health care delivery...
The Agape Jurisdiction, under the leadership of Bishop Isaac King, Jr. and its Sunday school department, will host its annual prayer breakfast on Saturday, Aug. 22, at Pentecostal Temple COGIC in Inkster...
The Detroit Lions recently hosted youth football players from Oxford and Detroit at a training camp practice at the Lions’ Headquarters and Practice Facility, in Allen park.
State Sen. Hansen Clarke will be hosting a town hall meeting open to the public on incentivizing student performance with leading Harvard Economics Professor Roland Fryer Jr...
The Detroit region continues to lead the country’s metropolitan areas in unemployment with a rate of 17.1 percent, according to data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics...
Sen. Tupac A. Hunter’s (D-Detroit) “Talk Time With Tupac” coffee hour will be held on Friday, Aug. 7, at Mary’s Grill, 20804 Plymouth Rd., from 10 to 11 a.m. He will be available to discuss the issues he is currently working on in Lansing with local residents...
In recent years, Detroiters have had to deal with a mayor leaving office in disgrace, an often divisive City Council, and a City Council now shrouded in a federal corruption probe, including one council member who pled guilty and was convicted of bribery — on top of the economic woes affecting the city, the state and the nation...
Recent events in Detroit’s history have made it clear that Detroiters cannot afford to wait until 2018 to revise the 1997 City Charter, and the voters agreed last year to elect a City Charter Revision Commission to update the City Charter to address in concrete terms those matters — such as in what circumstances an elected mayor could be removed from office — that were somewhat vague...
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