Brandi Mitchell first fell in love with music as a fourth grader at Detroit’s Carver Elementary school in the early 1980s.

Brandi Mitchell first fell in love with music as a fourth grader at Detroit’s Carver Elementary school in the early 1980s. She joined the band, grew into a natural at […] Solutions that work, from ...

Food waste makes up one-quarter of landfill waste and contributes to more methane emissions than other landfill materials. The Detroit Community Composting Collective Project is out to curb food waste ...

James Earl Baker had a new door installed with funds from U SNAP BAC’s Senior Empowerment Grant Program. U SNAP BAC was one of the partner organizations providing data for the Detroit Home Repair ...

Detroit had approximately 18 Black-owned or Black-operated hospitals during the 1940s and ’1950s. Their decline followed structural and policy shifts. Hospital desegregation after World War II opened ...

Along with food and water, housing is universally regarded as a basic need. But housing is not basic. In fact, in Detroit, a place which once built housing faster than any other major American city — ...

We interviewed several Detroiters about what caused them to become homeless, the varying forms homelessness takes, and what services the city's unhoused need. This story is part of a series that ...

In the early 1980s, Mayor Coleman A. Young and the city of Detroit conceded a whole neighborhood to General Motors. As GM threatened to end its manufacturing presence in the city by closing its ...

Recently, Community Financial changed its name to orsa Credit Union. Now the name will be on the imminent Music Hall Expansion. The Music Hall Center for Performing Arts and orsa Credit Union ...

With 139 square miles of land – some blighted or unused and ripe for repurposing – Detroit is well-positioned to develop solar farms to help power city buildings.

An asphalt parking lot has been turned into a new park and a shut-down community center has gotten a complete renovation. City officials and community activists Helen Moore recently gathered to ...

As Haitians became more prevalent in Metro Detroit, the two worlds have been intertwining. Metro Detroit claims the largest Arab-American concentration in the country, a significant Latino population ...