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Ford recalling a recall that was supposed fix air bag problems, a historical fiction novel set in Detroit and Alabama, how a Michigander invented kitty litter, and touring the Capitol restoration work in Lansing.
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Today, an analysis of Tuesday's primary election results, the details of a forthcoming, Black-led and woman-led birth center, and the story of a critical civil rights leader in Detroit.
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The first charges filed under Michigan's new safe firearm storage laws, how cultural changes can reduce deaths by guns, and remembering Battle Creek's civil rights era.
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The National Park Service and the city are teaming up to restore the AG Gaston Motel built by Black entrepreneur AG Gaston. It served as a secure space for civil rights leaders to strategize in 1963.
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An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan and will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation. The Jackson House will be dismantled starting later this year and trucked more than 800 miles to The Henry Ford Museum’s Greenfield Village in Dearborn.
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Mamie King-Chalmers, who as a young Black woman appeared in an iconic photo about civil rights struggles in Alabama, died this week in Detroit at the age of 81.
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Digital tools, which allow people to show one another what’s going on in their lives in real time, have shifted how Americans talk about police brutality…
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It's been an historical election year shaped by an ongoing pandemic, as well as a summer surge of protests against police brutality and racial injustice.…
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For many Michiganders, summer used to mean a stop at Boblo Island. Trips to the amusement park island on the Canadian side of the Detroit River ended in…
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This weekend, American Girl unveils its newest doll. Her name is Melody Ellison., and she’s from 1960's Detroit.In developing the doll, American Girl…