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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
Lapointe: Rosalynn Carter did many good deeds and so did her husband
And there’s a little bit of Detroit, too, at Atlanta’s Carter Center
By Joe Lapointe
Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Views & Opinions, Lapointe, Obituary, Rosalynn Carter, Jimmy Carter, Democratic Party, Mayor Coleman Young, Joe Louis
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
Damage to Underground Railroad monument in Detroit worries activists
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Hart Plaza, Detroit, slavery, Detroit River, Gateway to Freedom International Memorial, monument, vandalism, Underground Railroad, Michigan Underground Exploratory Collective
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
Boxer Taylor 'Machine Gun' Duerr among those battling at Night of Knockouts at Detroit's Sound Board
Staff Pick
Tags: The Scene, Boxing, Detroit boxing, Joe Louis, Tommy Hearns, Sound Board, MGM
New exhibition at Irwin House Gallery reflects on Detroit history — and what it means for the future
Tags: The Scene, Detroit art, Detroit history, Irwin House Gallery, John Sims
Muslim boxer files civil rights complaint against USA Boxing over beard
By Lucas Maiman
Tags: News Hits, Muslims, Detroit, boxing
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 new 'creepy-ass Mickey Mouse' statue draws mixed reactions
By Violet Ikonomova
Tags: News Hits, Detroit, art, downtown, dan gilbert, KAWS, statue, monument, campus martius
Detroit's Point of Origin unveiled in Campus Martius Park
Tags: News Hits, Detroit, Detroit history, Campus Martius, Historical Detroit
Now that it’s lit up, people seem to like Detroit’s new I-94 sign
Michigan communities are raking in benefits of legalized weed
Detroit’s City Winery music venue aims for 2025 opening