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No matter where you are, when you say the words "Detroit" and "music," someone's going to exclaim "Motown!"But Detroit's music history is much deeper and…
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Each February, the libraries in Monroe undergo a transformation. The Black History Month Blues Festival turns these sedate study spaces into concert…
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In honor of Black History Month, we visited with Amas Muhammad at Selden Standard in Detroit. He has a drink recipe for us below, but we wanted to know…
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There is extra special importance to this Martin Luther King Day in Ypsilanti.Remarkably, it was 150 years ago on this day that abolitionist and orator…
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture opens this weekend in Washington. One of the items on display is a violin that, until now, was…
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The history of Copper Country in the Upper Peninsula tends to focus on mining and the mostly European immigrants who worked those mines. That traditional…
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Angela Flournoy’s new novel, The Turner House, is receiving praise across the literary spectrum, from The New York Times to Buzzfeed.It was also a…
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Back in the mid-1800s, a slave by the name of Frank Demas purchased his freedom from a Kentucky slave owner. Demas later settled in Michigan and 170 years…
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We are in the middle of what is officially black history month. These days, so far as I can tell, that mostly means elementary school kids have to do a…
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When Ypsilanti High School art teacher Lynne Settles first arrived in town, she was unaware of the city's history. After a walking tour with a local…