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Is an emergency financial manager an attack on voting rights?That is exactly what some Detroiters believe.Just one day after Mayor Dave Bing stated an EFM is all but a done deal, protesters took to the streets to call on the Justice Department to intervene.City residents rallied in front of 211 W. Fort Street, where the offices of federal...

With only weeks to go until filming is set to begin for the Marvin Gaye biopic, Sexual Healing, Deadline.com reports that Lenny Kravitz will not play the late Motown star. This decision is following months of complaints and threats to take legal action against the film from Gaye’s son, Marvin Gaye III. Gaye III told TMZ: T...

Ciara is back! After the less than stellar album Basic Instinct was released in 2010, Ciara hit the ground hard and is now ready to release her fifth studio album One Woman Army in June of this year. While her fans wait with bated breath for the new release, she dropped the new single from the album entitled “Body Party”.“Body Party”, which was co-...

Think of the most personal e-mail you sent this week. Now imagine d eciding to bcc: the folks at Gmail, because in a world as complicated and open as ours, there really is no longer any need for privacy. Of course that is not true, and none of us would really do that. But the fact of the matter is, for those who have a Gmail...

Detroit is going through a historical shift both in terms of governance and quality of life, regardless of how that movement is viewed by the many different voices within and outside of the city.The Detroit that once was and is glorified by those who saw the city evolve in many phases before and after the 1967 rebellion, is not the Detroit that is...

With less than thirty days left to decide on whether or not Detroit will have an emergency manager, Governor Rick Snyder is set to address the media in an afternoon round table to discuss the city's finances. Snyder is not expected to make the official announcement, but rather will offer an update on where things currently...

Blended families are no longer an anomoly in our culture. As such, it is becoming more and more necessary for families to learn to work together and get along to create a postive environement for the children. Jada Pinkett Smith is a pro at managing a blended family, and she had a few choice words to a "friend" who is acting out...

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...

Beyoncé sure knows how to light up a stage and get an audience’s adrenaline pumping. Or, to put it another way, no one is better at “gettin’ the party started.”Case in point: The Super Bowl XLVII halftime show. Now that was exciting! Entertainment at its best. Jay-Z said recently that his wife is “the hardest working woman in show business,” and th...

From highly placed sources comes word that an emergency manager for Detroit is already on stand by, as Gov. Rick Snyder talks to various candidates. That is no surprise to those watching the process closely and others who are resigned to the notion that it is only a matter of time. But for now the only issue in the naming of...