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Tuesday, Feb. 19 night marked the first time the Detroit Consortium High School Men's Basketball team returned to the court since the death of their beloved head coach, Al Anderson.On Saturday, Anderson died suddenly of an apparent heart attack, just moments after his team won what many consider the team's best game of the season, a win over...

In a recent study, findings show that downtown’s population is younger, wealthier, better educated and more racially diverse than other areas of Detroit. The Hudson-Webber Foundation report aptly named “7.2 Square Miles” in reference to the area of downtown from the New Center Area to Rivertown chronicles the changing dem...

Tax season is here, and if you're filing in Michigan, chances are you're pocketbook is sure to feel the effects of recent legislative changes. This year, Michiganders are paying more and getting less. Residents are seeing much lower returns than what they have in recent years. One of the biggest changes to the state's tax laws...

Keke Palmer and Naitia “Lil Mama” Kirkland have just signed on to play Rozanda “Chilli” Thomas and Lisa “Left-eye” Lopes, respectively in the upcoming biopic about TLC. They join Drew Sidora who will portray Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins in the made-for-TV movie. The famed group rose to stardom in the early 90’s with their debut albu ...

In his State of the City address Wednesday evening at the Detroit School of Arts, Mayor Dave Bing worked to keep a positive theme despite numerous hardships facing the city.“The picture is not all doom and gloom,” He told the crowd of more than 300 people. “Too often, people focus on the negative things in our city.”In the 50-minute speech, Bing...

As the infamous Kwame Kilpatrick trail draws to a close, an office specially dedicated to uprooting corruption in Detroit city government is set to open. Detroit’s office of inspector general (OIG)—created as part of the 2012 city charter revision— will open to the public next week after years of research, debate and, ultim...

The proposed ATEC facility, located in Warren, Mich., adjacent to Macomb Community College (MCC), will involve the renovation of an existing structure on the 3.5-acre site at 14601 East 12 Mile Rd. The new ATEC facility will offer students in Macomb County the opportunity to attain four-year degrees in marketable academic...

During the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama, the Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) and U.S. Census Bureau released new data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2007 Survey of Business Owners showing that the number of African American-owned firms in Detroit grew to more than 32,000. In the entire United Sta...

Like the battle of Armageddon, the campaigns of the various candidates seeking to be Detroit’s next mayor are lining up support, building political ammunition with zest and ready to duke it out in what is to become the most hotly contested mayoral race in decades.It’s political show time in Detroit this summer as the battle for the next leadership...