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Detroit police commissioners urge Justice Department to investigate cop who killed elderly man
Daryl Vance was on life support for 20 days before he died in September from blunt force trauma to his head
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Government, Detroit Board of Police Commissioners, Juwan Brown, Daryl Vance, Detroit, Garden Bowl, assault, Justice Department, U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison
Mac Saturn cancels tour amid child porn scandal
The Detroit band says it will donate money to a charity for sexual abuse survivors after the arrest of its ex-keyboardist
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Michigan Music, Crime, Music, On Tour, Mac Saturn, Evan Mercer, FBI, Detroit rock bands
Macomb County tackles hate crimes with beefed-up prosecutor’s unit
Prosecutor Lucido pledges ‘commitment to confronting intolerance and bigotry’
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Civil Rights, Government, Crime, Peter Lucido, Macomb County, Macomb County Prosecutors Office, racism, ethnic intimidation, hate crimes, Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program, Patrick Coletta
In ‘Origin,’ Ava DuVernay turns Isabel Wilkerson’s exploration of racism, ‘Caste,’ into a gripping feature film
Here is a rare and excellent thing — a major dramatic feature about a Black woman intellectual
By Chuck Wilson
Tags: Movies, Views & Opinions, Ava DuVernay, racism, Isabel Wilkerson, Video
Macomb County porn star charged for role in Jan. 6 riot
The FBI said Paul Caloia bragged about participating in the riot on an intimate Skype chat
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Paul Caloia, Macomb County, Roseville, Jan. 6, insurrection, U.S. Capitol, FBI
Students, parents outraged by dismissal of beloved teacher in Livonia Public Schools
Mama J. believes race was a factor in her dismissal
Tags: Metro Detroit, Education, News, Government, Teacher, substitute teacher, Livonia Public Schools, racism, Mama J., Juanita Francis, diversity
Black family sues Grosse Pointe man who displayed KKK flag outside their home
The federal lawsuit alleges Ryan Wilde relentlessly terrorized the family
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, racism, KKK, Grosse Pointe Park, lawsuit, U.S. District Court, Je Donna Dinges, Ryan Wilde, intimidation
Taco John’s to debut metro Detroit location downriver
The fast food chain’s Monroe outpost opens on Oct. 23
By Randiah Camille Green
Tags: Food News, Restaurants, Taco John's, downriver, Monroe, food news
Growing neofascist group spreads hate in metro Detroit, trains to become ‘white warriors’
The Great Lakes Active Club has been noticeably active as its members continue to recruit white supremacists
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Active clubs, Great Lakes Active Club, racism, hate group, Telegram, social media, Detroit, Michigan, Southern Poverty Law Center, Counter Extremism Project
Arrest and surveillance of Detroit activist raises questions about police conduct
Peatmoss is accused of defacing a controversial statue of General Custer in Monroe
Tags: Michigan News, News, Crime, General George Armstrong Cluster, protest, police, Monroe, Cop City, surveillance, GPS tackers, Detroit
Alarming racial disparity found in Ferndale arrests and traffic tickets – again
An advocacy group is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate ‘predatory policing’ in the suburb
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Council on American-Islamic Relations, racial profiling, Ferndale, Detroit, 8 Mile, Muslims, traffic stops, police, racism
Muslim advocacy group calls for boycott of Michigan cider mill over Islamophobic remarks
‘I’m getting sick of you folks,’ the cider mill owner told a Muslim family
Tags: Michigan News, News, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islam, Muslims, Monroe County, Racism, cider mill, orchard, Erie Orchards & Cider Mill
White millionaire abruptly pulls plug on predominantly Black talk radio station 910AM
Owner Kevin Adell was accused of running the Detroit-area station into the ground with a series of missteps, controversies, and heavy-handed tactics
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Media, 910AM Superstation, 910AM, radio station, black radio, Kevin Adell, Southfield, Sam Riddle, radio hosts, racism
Detroit police arrest pregnant Black woman after false facial recognition match
The faulty Project Green Light surveillance network has led to at least three false arrests
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Porcha Woodruff, Detroit, Detroit Police Department, facial recognition technology, racism, police, lawsuit, U.S. District Court
Detroit activist Malik Shabazz to undergo permanent heart pump transplant
He’s still in critical condition after he had a heart attack on June 26
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Malik Shabazz, Detroit, Activism, racism, heart attack, Henry Ford Hospital, Sam Riddle, New Black Panther Party/New Marcus Garvey Movement
Livonia police criticized for response to racist attack on Black teen
An adult severely assaulted a 13-year-old Black child while yelling racial slurs
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Livonia, Livonia Police Department, Assault, racism, Facebook, social media, police
WJR unveils ‘next generation’ of radio hosts: old white men
AM radio has become a hub for right-wing radio shows
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Media, WJR, radio station, radio, AM, diversity, racism, Paul W. Smith, Tom Jordan, Kevin Dietz, Guy Gordon, Mitch Album, Chris Renwick, Karen Dumas
Tlaib joins fight for $14 trillion in reparations for Black Americans
The Detroit Democrat joined U.S. Rep. Cori Bush in urging their colleagues to help atone for the practice of slavery and hundreds of years of racist policies
Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, reparations, racism, Washington D.C., Reparations Now Resolution, Democrats
Dirty Detroit cop sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for bribery in towing scandal
John F. Kennedy committed the crimes while he supposedly investigating police misconduct
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit Police Department, bribery, FBI, Operation Northern Hook, John F. Kennedy, towing industry, Detroit corruption
Michigan romance novel cover model-turned-insurrectionist sentenced to 3 years in prison for assaulting cops
Logan Barnhart dragged an officer down the steps of the Capitol and assaulted others with a flag pole
Tags: Michigan News, News, Insurrection, Jan. 6, Logan Banhart, Michigan, assault, Romance novels, model, body builder, Holt, FBI
Michigan’s ‘Bikers, Buds, & Brews’ taps Marcy Playground and Soul Asylum
Detroit’s ‘NSFW’ art and music exhibit is not what you think
Kash Doll, Rema, and PartyNextDoor among Afro Nation Detroit headliners