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Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation's social entrepreneurship program includes a six-week course on marketing, budgeting ...
Through its resources, innovative lending, wealth-building initiatives and economic justice advocacy, OppFund has empowered ...
Federal Medicaid cuts threaten the very lives of those living with serious mental illness, disabilities, and substance use ...
A burning field, forest, or prairie in your local park may be an alarming sight, but sometimes it's actually a sign of an ...
A transformative blueprint: invest early, trust parents, and recognize that nurturing families yields a huge return. Across Michigan, a growing number of communities are redefining when education ...
We kick off a three-part series on housing in Detroit with an examination of how the single-family home became the city's dominant housing type.
More than 50 years before Dutch elm disease, a treacherous caterpillar pest spurred the city to action on an ambitious plan for its street trees.
As we celebrate a decade of publishing in Detroit, we look back on the growth of the city's urban agriculture movement in recent years.
Measuring access to groceries and fresh produce is a longstanding Detroit conundrum, particularly around discussions of "food deserts" and the more layered understanding of "opportunity deserts".
Race and class collide along the stark border separating Detroit and Grosse Pointe Park. Can these two communities come together as neighbors?
Congregants of Shaarey Zedek acquired the land for Beth Olem in the early 1860s, and the first burial probably happened around 1868. Germans owned the surrounding farms. Later 19th-century cemeteries ...