The "Great Lake State" and "Great Lakes" designs are available for an additional fee that will help improve roads around the ...

1957 Pioneering Detroit radio and TV broadcasting legend Robin Seymour (born Seymour Samuel Altman) is credited with introducing white audiences to Black R&B and rock ’n’ roll while helping to launch ...

They were the people — mostly women — who spent their lives cooking, cleaning and caring for the children of the elite, but ...

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The June 1963 march in Detroit was, at the time, the largest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history, with 125,000 marching down Woodward Avenue.

Martin Luther King gave over 2,500 public speeches during his lifetime – many of them were delivered without a manuscript and with few notes.

Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal ...

brought Rosa Parks to Detroit to give a talk on the Montgomery Bus Boycott — against the wishes of UAW President Walter Reuther. Although Reuther wasn’t initially on board with the ...

Editor’s Note: This story was published in partnership with San Quentin News and was written during a writing seminar for incarcerated veterans in April hosted by The War Horse at California’s ...

The last phase of the 696 Restore the Reuther project is expected to begin in early March. Eastbound and westbound I-696 will be rebuilt between Lahser Road and I-75 in 2025-2026. In 2027 ...