The coronavirus pandemic has shed new light on racial disparities in American health outcomes. Economic disadvantage is one reason Black people in the United States are on average less healthy than white people — but there are other causes, including the ongoing stress of systemic racism.
As marchers across the nation and in Metro Detroit protest police brutality against Blacks, one group is on the front lines — young people.
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.
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.