DETROIT >> Deborah Chenault Green is 62, a writer. But 50 years ago she was a pre-teen, sleeping on the porch to escape the oppressive heat, awakening to see a sky that glowed unnaturally. Azerine ...

In the tattered basement of an inner-city home, a young black family and their friends talked about love, death, race and their dreams of a modest future together as budding entrepreneurs. But through ...

Detroit has faced a tumultuous past, but the most painful week in Detroit's modern history arguably happened exactly 50 years ago. On July 23, 1967, after decades of discrimination, poverty, and ...

Next weekend, we'll be joining you from member station WDET in Detroit, where we will be spending a lot of time looking back at the Detroit riots. They began 50 years ago in the early morning hours of ...

*A new trailer has been released for “Detroit,” the Kathryn Bigelow film based on the Algiers Motel incident, in which three black men were killed during a race riot in the city. The film’s second ...

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A onetime business editor at the Detroit Free Press who was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the city's 1967 riot and was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame has ...