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 ...

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

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

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

Ben Crump says Detroit needs a mayor who will fight for economic opportunity, education, and equity. He says Mary Sheffield can get it done.

That’s why I am proud to endorse her as the next mayor of Detroit,” Crump said in a statement obtained by BLACK ENTERPRISE. Sheffield is a fourth-generation Detroiter who many see as the heir ...

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.

Black on Black” — and interviewed top figures, from former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa to Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young. “This business consumes your life, and you don’t want to do ...