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The worker-owned co-op offers health screenings, therapy, and reiki healing with a sliding scale model

Tags: Culture, Health and wellness, Mobile City Motor Wellness, Culture, Detroit communities, Detroit worker-owned co-op

The long-awaited Neighborhood Grocery has finally opened with the help of a Motor City Match grant

Tags: Food News, Local Businesses, Neighborhood Grocery, Jefferson Chalmers Detroit, Black-owned businesses in Detroit, culture, food insecurity

A live exhibition will feature street art by Detroit artist ‘The Hood Picasso’

Tags: Arts, Local Businesses, Music, Things to Do, Visual Art, Art, Culture, Creativity, Mexican Independence Day, Latin heritage, food, graffiti, Pontiac Festival of the Arts

While the boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider, we’re going to ‘Build a Human Habitat on Mars’

Tags: Culture, Things to Do, Arts & Culture, Michigan Science Center, Build a Human Habitat on Mars exhibit, Things to do in Detroit, Culture

The museum is still in the final phase of its planned $65 million expansion

Tags: Culture, Music, Motown Museum, Hitsville USA, culture

Wiping the law from the books would send a strong message to Michiganders who have put it all on the line in the last couple of years for better working conditions

Tags: Michigan News, Labor, Views & Opinions, Michigan, Right to Work, Democrats, Republicans, unions, labor

273,000 workers across the U.S. joined unions in 2022 — though membership is still at an all-time low

Tags: Michigan News, Labor, unions, labor, Michigan, Michigan AFL-CIO, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Michigan has a long history of union activism, but the movement has fallen on hard times in recent years

Tags: Michigan News, Labor, NLRB, National Labor Relations Board, unions, labor, Michigan

Neighborhood Grocery has yet to open its doors, but that hasn’t stopped owner Raphael Wright from fighting food insecurity

Tags: Culture, Local businesses, Neighborhood Grocery, Raphael Wright, food insecurity, culture, local businesses

Massage therapists, clairvoyants, and psilocybin healers have set up shop in the building helmed by the owners of The Schvitz

Tags: Culture, Local businesses, The Schvitz, The Convent, health and wellness, Culture, Magdalene Airbnb

If anyone should be disappointed, it’s the workers being treated like capitalist slaves

Tags: Michigan News, Labor, Chipotle, union efforts, labor, news & views, Michigan news, Brian Niccol

Detroit Public Thrift started as a pop-up and is finally getting a permanent storefront after three years of planning

Tags: Culture, Local businesses, Labor, Detroit Public Thrift, Hamtramck, Worker-owned business, Co-op business, Culture

The hypnotic work features a rainbow color palette and three-dimensional geometric shapes

Tags: Marijuana News, Weed, Jars, mural, art, culture, marijuana, cannabis, Ferndale, Joey Salamon, JARS Cannabis, HYPE Cannabis

Automotive drawings from Julie Hyde-Edwards were donated for the collection

Tags: Culture, Car culture, Detroit Institute of Arts, Culture, Arts & Culture

Beloved by the community, the artist and activist died in August

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Visual Art, Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts, Detroit, art, poetry, Wayne County Community College, labor, unions, activism

The 38-minute show will run concurrently with ‘Immersive Van Gogh,’ which has been extended to Oct. 16

Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Gustav Klimt, Lighthouse Immersive, Lighthouse ArtSpace Detroit, Detroit, downtown, art, culture, paintings, Immersive Klimt: Revolution

OK, Motown Museum, we see you ✨

Tags: Culture, Arts & Culture, Motown Museum, Motown, Culture, Arts & Culture

The Ruth Ellis Clairmount Center will provide housing and skills training for at-risk LGBTQ youth

Tags: Culture, Arts & Culture, Ruth Ellis Center, Ijania Cortez, Detroit murals, New Center, Culture, Arts & Culture

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

Adding insult to injury, they didn’t even get to eat the cake, which was for management

Tags: Food News, Labor, Chipotle, Michigan, Lansing, unions, labor