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
- VP Harris says U.S. agencies must show their AI tools aren't harming people's safety or rights
Vice President Kamala Harris says government agencies that use AI tools will be required to verify that those tools do not endanger the rights and safety of the American people.
- What family and supporters have said about U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich's year in Russian prison
When Gershkovich was arrested a year ago -- the first U.S. journalist taken into custody on espionage charges since 1986 at the height of the Cold War -- it came as a shock, even though Russia had enacted increasingly repressive laws on freedom of speech after the invasion of Ukraine.
- International team of doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are stunned by the war's toll on Palestinian children
An international team of doctors was prepared for the worst before visiting a hospital in central Gaza. The doctors were nevertheless stunned by the gruesome impact that Israel's war against Hamas is having on Palestinian children.