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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
Allied Media Projects' speaker series to host free panel with immigration justice leaders
By Jerilyn Jordan
Tags: The Scene, Social justice, Allied Media, free virtual event, immigration
You can learn about sea shanties on historic sailing tours on the Detroit River
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
ICE arrests 75 people during weeklong operation in Michigan, Ohio
By Steve Neavling
Tags: News Hits, ICE, Immigration, Michigan, Ohio, Iraq, Honduras, arrest
MSU student from Iran was removed from US after landing at Detroit Metro Airport
Tags: News Hits, CBP, Iran, Michigan State University, education, Detroit Metro Airport, Immigration
ICE says immigrants knew they enrolled in a fake university, but recordings show some were confused
Tags: News Hits, Trump's America, University of Farmington, Detroit, immigration, fake college
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
Dearborn stops working with ICE amid backlash from immigration advocates
Tags: News Hits, ICE, Immigration, Dearborn, Mayor Jack O’Reilly Jr., Rashida Tlaib, Andy Levin, Debbie Dingell
Michigan's immigrant families face green card hurdles under federal rule change
By Nadia Ramlagan, Michigan News Connection
Tags: News Hits, immigration, Michigan, Lansing, green cards
Border Patrol is harassing brown US citizens on Belle Isle
By Tom Perkins
Tags: News Hits, ICE, Border patrol, Belle Isle, Immigration, Canadian US Border
'Fuck ICE': Michigan GOP headquarters targeted with graffiti
Tags: News Hits, Graffiti, Lansing, GOP, Michigan Republican Party, Laura Cox, immigration, President Trump, Rashida Tlaib, vandalism, police, Ice
Poignant exhibit in Detroit honors 'thousands of separated immigrant children'
By Maryam Jayyousi
Tags: News Hits, Immigration, border, Border Patrol, ICE, Cass Corridor, Detroit, art
Trump views rule of law as something that applies to others, not him
By Jeffrey C. Billman
Tags: Informed Dissent, Donald Trump, Trump's America, immigration
Groups protest anti-sanctuary city bills in Michigan legislature
By Suzanne Potter, Michigan News Connection
Tags: News Hits, sanctuary city, Michigan, immigration
Right-wing radicals Steve Bannon and Sheriff Clarke coming to Warren for 'We Build the Wall' event
By Devin Culham
Tags: News Hits, We Build the Wall, Steve Bannon, Breitbart News, immigration
Detroit exhibit highlights family's turmoil after mother's deportation
By Violet Ikonomova
Tags: News Hits, Doug Fleury, immigration, ICE, deportation, family separation
Now that it’s lit up, people seem to like Detroit’s new I-94 sign
Pot-friendly Michigan music venue scales back programming
Black women-owned cannabis cultivator Calyxeum opens its first dispensary in Detroit