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Detroit Postal Service commemorates the Underground Railroad with new ‘Forever’ stamps
Detroit was a major part of the secret network of freedom seekers
By Layla McMurtrie
Tags: Metro Detroit, Civil Rights, Education, News, Things to Do, Detroit history, Detroit figures, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, The Detroit Postal Service, Detroit events, things to do in Detroit, Underground Railroad, Slideshow
Detroit Zoo celebrates 95th anniversary with events in August
Things kick off on Tuesday
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Things to Do, Critics’ Picks, Things to Do, Detroit Zoo, Griffin Claw Brewing Company, Detroit history
Detroit’s official historian to give first annual lecture at site of 1967 rebellion’s start
Instead of focusing on the uprising’s violent history, Jamon Jordan will detail how Detroit recovered and continues to thrive
By Randiah Camille Green
Tags: Things to Do, Arts & Culture, Jamon Jordan, Detroit history, Detroit historian, Things to Do, Arts & Culture
‘Detroit’s other Rosa Parks’ lives on through the adults she impacted as children
The documentary series ‘The Children of Action House’ focuses on the life and achievements of Sarah E. Ray
Tags: Culture, Arts & Culture, Sarah E. Ray, Boblo boat, Children of Action House, Detroit history, Arts & Culture, Culture
You can learn about sea shanties on historic sailing tours on the Detroit River
By Jerilyn Jordan
Tags: The Scene, Detroit river, Detroit history, sailboat, sea shanty, TikTok
Detroit writer's memoir 'The World According to Fannie Davis' to be adapted for feature film
Tags: The Scene, Bridgett Davis, Fannie Davis, Detroit memoir, Detroit history, Disney, Brad Pitt
New exhibition at Irwin House Gallery reflects on Detroit history — and what it means for the future
Staff Pick
Tags: The Scene, Detroit art, Detroit history, Irwin House Gallery, John Sims
80 years ago, Detroit's black heavyweight took down Nazi Germany's star boxer
By Jacob Stocking
Tags: The Scene, Joe Louis, boxing, Max Schmeling, heavyweight championship, monument, Detroit history
Forgotten history: Detroit's 1943 race riot broke out 75 years ago today
By Michael Jackman
Tags: News Hits, Detroit history, Detroit race riot, 1943 Detroit race riot, Mayor Edward J. Jeffries Jr.
Ron Gurdjian, keeper of the flame at Tom's Tavern, is dead at 78
Tags: Table and Bar, Tom's Tavern, Ron Gurdjian, Tom Lucas, Detroit history, speakeasies
This history tour shows Detroit’s pivotal role as a battleground for racial justice
Tags: The Scene, Detroit history, black history, Black Scroll Network History & Tours, Jamon Jordan, Rutha Blackburn, Thornton Blackburn, Eddie Tolan, Henry Ford, the Great Migration, Great Migration, Two Detroits, Father Coughlin, Tabitha Lightfoot, Caroline French, Benjamin Willoughby, Albert Cleage, Gerald L.K. Smith, Paradise Theatre, segregation in Detroit, the Rev. C.L. Franklin
The 28th annual Pewabic house and garden show kicks off this week
Tags: The Scene, Pewabic Detroit, Detroit history, Pewabic home and garden, Detroit pottery, Detroit ceramics
Man finds unopened bottle of Vernors that could date back 100 years
Tags: News Hits, Vernor's, Detroit history, Vernor's ginger ale, Vernor's Detroit
How the Woodward Plan for greater Detroit died 200 years ago today
Tags: The Scene, Detroit history, Woodward Plan, Augustus B. Woodward, urban design
Detroit's Point of Origin unveiled in Campus Martius Park
Tags: News Hits, Detroit, Detroit history, Campus Martius, Historical Detroit
Billy Davis and Harmonica Shah to discuss Detroit black history Wednesday
Tags: City Slang, Black history, Detroit history, Harmonica Shah, Bill Davis
The story of how four black Detroiters became property owners after the Great Fire of 1805
By Paul Sewick
Tags: The Scene, Detroit history, Black History Month, downtown Detroit, J. L. Hudson building
You can buy Diana Ross' childhood home
Tags: News Hits, Diana Ross childhood home, Motown history, Detroit history, Detroit music history
U-M prof's The Dawn of Detroit offers a fresh perspective on the city's history
By Larry Gabriel
Tags: Stir It Up, larry gabriel, Detroit history, oral history of Detroit
Setting the record straight about the 'Witch of Delray'
Tags: The Scene, Rose Veres, the Witch of Delray, Woodmere Cemetery, Karen Dybis, Detroit history, Detroit books, Detroit true crime
Michigan’s ‘Bikers, Buds, & Brews’ taps Marcy Playground and Soul Asylum
Detroit illegally inflated taxes on lowest value homes, study suggests
By Steve Neavling
Detroit’s ‘NSFW’ art and music exhibit is not what you think