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Detroit Responds to Hazardous Air Quality with Free Masks, Respite Centers

Smoke from Canadian Wildfires has pushed Detroit's air quality into the hazardous range. The city has opened recreation ...
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Modular building, 3D construction paves way for innovative solutions to the housing crisis

Block by Block is a solutions journalism series that is supported by IFF, CEDAM and Invest Detroit, and is focused on ...
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Primary care providers help expand oral health access through national training initiative

The 100 Million Mouths Campaign trains primary care providers to identify oral health concerns, expanding access and ...
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How Michigan’s #1-Ranked Free Pre-K Program Is Closing Detroit’s Kindergarten Gap

DPSCD's Great Start Readiness Program is giving Detroit's youngest learners a head start by preparing them for kindergarten ...
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Detroit Defies America’s Reading Recession: Inside the Quiet Comeback of DPSCD

Detroit’s public schools have faced some of the toughest challenges in urban education, yet the district continued to push forward. A groundswell of parents, students, and educators pushed for better ...
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Community developers’ pride for area fuels investment, catalyst for change, growth in Detroit neighborhoods

Block by Block is a solutions journalism series that is supported by IFF, CEDAM and Invest Detroit, and is focused on community development leaders and initiatives in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
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Motown’s Black women songwriters and producers were the invisible architects behind the pop music juggernaut

Sylvia Moy was a trailblazing Motown songwriter. L. Busacca/WireImage for Songwriter’s Hall of Fame Margena A. Christian, University of Illinois Chicago During the 1960s, in a country divided by ...
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Michigan Adventurer to Bike 1,000 Miles Across State to Spotlight Hidden Form of Domestic Abuse

This morning, adventurer and author Laura Killingbeck will begin an eight-week, 1,000-mile bicycle ride across Michigan. Starting in the Upper Peninsula and ending July 20 in Detroit, the journey is ...
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DABO Detroit works to bridge gaps for Black residents

As Rev. Horace Sheffield III is wrapping up a business call, Chantel Watkins is confirming numerous appointments on the day’s itinerary: this is a small glimpse of the day-to-day at DABO Detroit.
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Jocelyn Benson followed a civil rights hero to Alabama. It shaped her path to power.

This story was originally reported by Grace Panetta of The 19th. Meet Grace and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA — More than 30 years apart, two women ...
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Detroit was once home to 18 Black-led hospitals – here’s how to understand their rise and fall

A view of Detroit in 1929. The city’s rapid population growth led to increased health care needs. Library of Congress Rashid Faisal, University of Michigan-Dearborn and Anita Moncrease, Wayne State ...
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Composting project empowers Detroiters to reduce food waste, protect the environment

Parker Jean (Sanctuary Farms co-founder and operations director) uses a compost thermometer, as industrial-scale compost course students Laura Howard and Kharon Rayford look on. Photo courtesy of ...