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Free Press Flashback: The Rev. Charles Adams' first days as president of NAACP in Detroit
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe Rev. Charles G. Adams, retired pastor of Detroit’s influential Hartford Memorial Baptist Church,...
Flashback: What Coleman Young really meant when he said 'Hit 8 Mile' 50 years ago
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 5 months agoDetroit ushered in its first Black mayor in January 1974 with a boisterous inauguration that...
Professor: OSU operating in 'opaque ways.' Public deserves to know why president resigned
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJudson L. Jeffries is a professor of African American and African studies and former chair of the...
Unsung Detroit heroes: 2 Martin Luther King Jr. marches possible
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoNearly 60 years ago, on Aug. 28, 1963, the largest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history was...
John Sinclair, Detroit poet, cannabis activist and counterculture icon, dead at 82
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 2 months agoGleefully proclaiming the joys of rock ‘n’ roll, drugs and sex in the streets, John Sinclair reigned...
Detroit native's ancestry research helped her make history
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBefore she was celebrated on the front page of the New York Times. And before her name appeared in a...
Leap of faith at 13,000 feet still inspires head lawyer of Detroit's school district
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoBefore she graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in English literature. Before she...