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"Words mean things."Our favorite podcasters, Crissle and Kid Fury of The Read, are fond of saying that.It's true now more than ever, but particularly when…

The debut album by Grand Rapids indie rock and soul band VoxVidorra explores race, inequality, love and religion.Molly Bouwsma-Schultz is VoxVidorra’s…

Detroit is seeing more private investment and new businesses in its downtown areas, but some residents in the neighborhoods don’t see how they’re…

Twenty years ago this fall, Curtis Ivery was appointed chancellor of the oddly named Wayne County Community College District. The place was a mess. One of…

More than a million people know how Brit Bennett feels about being black in nice little liberal enclaves of progressive white people.Basically, confused.…

About 50 civic leaders met today in Detroit to develop a plan to improve life outcomes for young men of color.The group is taking up the challenge of…

I flew to Florida early last month, and while in the air re-read from cover to cover the one indispensable book that explains as nothing else what really…

A newly released report is breaking new ground in the study of inequality among our children.The report is from the Annie E. Casey Foundation for Kids…

The University of Michigan has a race problem.“Open it up! Or we’ll shut it down!” chanted half a dozen black students at the Board of Regents meeting…

Administrators at the University of Michigan are “doubling down” on efforts to improve race relations at the university’s Ann Arbor campus. Minority…