During Black History Month, News4JAX is celebrating local African American trailblazers who paved the way in politics and ...

The news conference was held on the same day that several immigrant, Latino, Asian American and Black groups released a ...

Trump won Michigan by around 80,000 votes—and urban Wayne County accounts for virtually all of it. Yes, the explanation ...

Yet while white people felt welcomed, many Black residents said their civil rights were violated. In 1971, after a trial, U.S ...

Duggan was provided three candidates to choose from, including current interim chief Todd Bettison and two other men who have ...

There’s been a lot of hesitancy, uncertainty — even outright fear — among many in the Chicago performing arts community, ...

Fellow members of the council lifted Marsh to a pantheon of Black mayors — such as Cleveland’s Carl Stokes, Atlanta’s Maynard Jackson and Detroit’s Coleman Young — who in the 1970s ...

Leslie Knox was a young girl in the 1960s when her Detroit ... two Black angel figurines on a kitchen window. "I believe God put me here." Amer Ghalib, a native of Yemen and Hamtramck's mayor ...

As the newly elected Detroit mayor, Kilpatrick’s hands-on style ... an enormous potential for strategic alliances between Black-owned companies. Upon his election to the mayor’s office ...

Smith is this year’s first Black History Month honoree in the Ilitch Sports + Entertainment Game Changers series, which celebrates community members making a profound difference in Detroit.