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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

Here is a rare and excellent thing — a major dramatic feature about a Black woman intellectual

Tags: Movies, Views & Opinions, Ava DuVernay, racism, Isabel Wilkerson, Video

Last month’s incident wasn’t the first time the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist was accused of domestic violence

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Media, Charlie LeDuff, domestic violence, police, Oakland County District Court, Detroit: An American Autopsy, journalism, reporter, Pleasant Ridge

Ashly Jackson revived the unsolved mystery in a viral TikTok video

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Tamara Greene, Kwame Kilpatrick, stripper, Manoogian Mansion, social media, TikTok, Ashly Jackson, Detroit police

The initial post prompted some to question whether the Detroit Democrat has once again changed his position on Israel

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Hacked, social media, Twitter, X, Shri Thanedar, Congress, Hamas, Israel, Palestine

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

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

Activists say they can no longer re-elect a president who did nothing to save thousands of Palestinians

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Joe Biden, election, politics, muslims, Dawud Wallid, Israel, Gaza, genocide, rally, protest, Detroit

Nasr Hussain suggested the Holocaust was ‘advance punishment’ for Israel’s brutality toward Palestinians

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, LGBTQ+, Politics & Government, Hamtramck, Hamtramck City Council, politics, Holocaust, Anti-Semitism, Palestinians, Nasr Hussain, Facebook, social media

The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter insists he’s just a man of the people

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Media, Charlie LeDuff, Dana Nessel, social media, No Bullshit News Hour, Podcast, ML Elrick, ML's Soul of Detroit

In an interview with Metro Times, LeDuff was defiant and said he has “nothing to apologize for”

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Media, News, Charlie LeDuff, Detroit News, media, Dana Nessel, Michigan, Attorney General, No BS News Hour, social media

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

Metro Times obtained messages from top MSP leaders about a deleted social media meme that some officers found controversial

Tags: Michigan News, News, Media, Politics & Government, Barbie, Michigan, Michigan State Police, movie, women, texts, Freedom of Information Act, social media, Twitter, Facebook

The witness painted a different picture of the encounter compared to the official police account

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Crime, Garden Bowl, Detroit, Midtown, Detroit Police Department, police, assault, Detroit Board of Police Commissioners

The user behind the imposter account blamed a spelling mistake on his bowel movement

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Twitter, X, social media, Detroit News, Detroit, fact-checker, media, Elon Musk

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

A manhunt for the retired sergeant ended with his capture out of state

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Crime, Detroit Police Department, police, Detroit, sergeant, rape, criminal sexual conduct, incest, Romulus, James Everett Sharpe Jr.

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

‘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

The 74-year-old man’s injuries were so severe that he had to have surgery

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Civil rights lawsuit, lawsuit, Jon Marko, Madison Heights, Madison Heights Police Department, police, police brutality, Fourth Amendment