A $10 million fundraising campaign launched Thursday to rebuild Black Wall Street —Tulsa, Oklahoma’s black-owned business district destroyed in 1921 by white rioters — could soon spread to Detroit, organizers said.
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The first week of April, the Rev. Kenneth Flowers had a slight dry cough, body aches and a bad headache. His 90-year-old mother he helped take care of had tested positive for the coronavirus a few days earlier, and so he asked his doctor whether he should get a test.
Building on the city’s momentum with its slowing pace of new COVID-19 cases and deaths, residents of Detroit have an opportunity to get tested for free today.
Detroit Rev. Horace Sheffield III shared what the toughest parts of his battle with coronavirus (COVID-19) have been.
People told Rev. Horace Sheffield III not to take the March 12 trip to New York to meet with Rev. Al Sharpton.
The Rev. Horace Sheffield III, a longtime civil rights activist in Detroit, confirmed Thursday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus.
The newest Families Against Narcotics chapter recently was launched in Michigan’s biggest city.
The Detroit Association of Black Organizations (Dabo) is a consortium of organizations and community groups that work together and provide resources and services for the overlooked and the underserved in metropolitan Detroit.
DETROIT (AP)—At church services, in rallies and on social media, Black pastors urged congregants to vote, hoping to inspire a late flood of African American turnout that could help propel Democrat Hillary Clinton to victory in critical swing states.
On the final weekend of the presidential campaign, a pastor in Detroit spoke of voting and citizenship. In Philadelphia, the minister reminded congregants others had died for their chance to cast a ballot. Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke to a few hundred people in front of City Hall in Tallahassee, Fla., before they marched a block over to the county courthouse to vote early.
Community leaders held a press conference, asking the Department of Justice to conduct an investigation into Dearborn government and the “disproportionate treatment of African-Americans in Dearborn.”
Rev. Horace Sheffield, chair of the Detroit Ecumenical Ministers Alliance, Attorney Michael Fortner, chair of the Commission for Civil Rights and Social Justice and Dr. William Revely of the Unify Detroit Coalition will hold the conference.