New series explores efforts to address oral health inequities
Dec 6, 2024 · Dr. Faiyaz Syed The foundation is underwriting a new series of reports that will explore efforts to address oral health inequities and their effects on the most vulnerable populations.
Doors open, lights on at Dr. Maya Angelou Village
Oct 14, 2024 · Lights are coming on at the Dr. Maya Angelou Village in northwest Detroit as the first residents have moved into their new homes. This 45-unit building on Burt Road and Grand River Ave. represents a partnership between Chicago-based developer Full Circle Communities and Alternatives for Girls, a Detroit nonprofit which has served at …
Neighbors drive development at Brightmoor’s Eliza Howell Park
Nov 22, 2024 · This October, Brightmoor resident Marlin Franklin went camping in a unique spot– right in his own Detroit neighborhood at Eliza Howell Park. Accompanying him were his son and two grandchildren, and this was their first camping trip.
Breaking down barriers for local artists
Nov 29, 2024 · BULK Space, in Detroit’s North End, offers classes, tools, technology and a physical place for under-resourced artists
Detroiters Helping Each Other: ‘It’s just straight groundwork.’
Aug 26, 2024 · Metro Detroit is blessed with a community of incredible people creating a better world for all of us. They range from highly professional funders and executives crafting strategies to ameliorate complicated social problems, to the hands-on staffers that carry out those plans, at organizations small and large.
From rapper to composer: Michigan sports music writer shoots his …
Oct 3, 2023 · P.L. realized he wasn’t just turning in songs, but enhancing the sports experiences for fans and viewers. Prior to his work, most networks contracted popular music artists to do similar work but the music was shallow and lacked a certain kind of depth.
7 wonders of Detroit Public Library's Main Branch - Model D
Jun 23, 2015 · Every Detroiter has one or more places that stir deep feelings of affection for this place we call home. For many of us, that place is the Main Branch of the Detroit Public Library. The grand building is rooted in an older Detroit, a time when the city was just roaring into life as an industrial powerhouse, when the "Paris of the Midwest" tagline was said without irony.
How Carlos King ascended to reality show royalty -- and brought …
Sep 11, 2024 · It's a private Detroit premiere for the second season of OWN's “Love & Marriage: Detroit” and Carlos King, the show's creator is working the room giving away hugs and handshakes.
“Society tells me that I can't live anywhere and people want to …
Jan 16, 2024 · The struggles are many for people leaving the prison system, but Friends of Returning Citizens (FORC) is there to help for juvenile lifers and others on probation, paroled, or recently released from a Michigan prison.
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