News From Around Detroit
- Metro Detroit Black Business Alliance changes name, goes statewideby Orlando Bailey (Orlando Bailey, Author at BridgeDetroit)
A $500,000 appropriation from last year’s state budget will take the Detroit-based organization to Lansing and Flint.
- Black men bond where they feel at home — in the barbershopby Bryce Huffman, Orlando Bailey and Quinn Banks (Bryce Huffman, Author at BridgeDetroit)
The Black barbershop is a sanctuary for grooming and public rest and a pulpit to express joy, debate values and politics in a community that is affirming and safe.
- Black men bond where they feel at home — in the barbershopby Bryce Huffman, Orlando Bailey and Quinn Banks (Orlando Bailey, Author at BridgeDetroit)
The Black barbershop is a sanctuary for grooming and public rest and a pulpit to express joy, debate values and politics in a community that is affirming and safe.
- Detroit transit warrior finds his placeby Bryce Huffman (Bryce Huffman, Author at BridgeDetroit)
Michael Cunningham II, a fierce advocate for bus riders and drivers in Detroit, has landed a one-bedroom apartment after nearly a decade of housing insecurity.
- Biography explores lesser-known side of MLKby Orlando Bailey and Christine Ferretti (Orlando Bailey, Author at BridgeDetroit)
Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life, delves into never-before-seen papers, archives and Martin Luther King’s humanity.
National Headlines
- WATCH LIVE: Pentagon holds briefing as Philippines warn of countermeasures against China at sea
Disputes between China and the Philippines are escalating in the contested waters, where there have been minor collisions between the coast guard and other vessels of the rival claimant nations.
- Biden administration restores protections for threatened species dropped by Trump
Among the changes announced Thursday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified as threatened.
- Dairy cows in Texas, Kansas test positive for avian flu
The commercial milk supply is safe and risk to people is low, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dairies are required to only allow milk from healthy animals to enter the food supply, and milk from the sick animals is being diverted or destroyed.