racism

Race is very difficult for people to talk about.Many white people want to believe we’re in a post-racial society. After all, we have an African-American…

Poetry can have a way of pushing you out of your comfort zone and into a place that challenges your perceptions and makes you question your beliefs. The…

Correction for the audio interview: 48217 is the most polluted ZIP code in Michigan (as stated), but the Delray neighborhood is in the neighboring ZIP…

Michigan State University will release plans later today to show it is trying to address the needs of African-American students. But some black Spartans…

Updated at 5:30 pm The city of Dearborn quietly removed a controversial statue of former mayor Orville Hubbard this morning. For years, the 10-foot-tall…

Earlier this year I talked about Southfield, which I think is one of the more intriguing communities in Michigan.Southfield, which has between 70,000 and…

You may see fewer Confederate flags at next month’s NASCAR race at Michigan International Speedway.A spokesman for the race track in Brooklyn says they…

"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…

Six years ago, when President Obama first took office, the United States was in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Unemployment was…

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…