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The Defender has confirmed that First Lady Michelle Obama will attend the funeral service for slain teen Hadiya Pendleton. The 15-year-old was gunned down Jan. 29 at a park located one mile north of where the First Lady and the first family live in the Kenwood neighborhood on the South Side. Hadiya's father, Nathaniel...

Let it be known that there is opportunity for the entrepreneurial spirit in Detroit. Black-owned IT firm IC Datacom recently secured a $50,000 small business loan from the First Step Fund. IC Datacom, which houses its office inside of Tech Town, Wayne State University’s business accelerator, is a full service IT company that markets and d...

Apparently, when Gov. Rick Snyder appointed Roy Roberts under Public Act 4, the state law that allows the governor to appoint emergency managers with nearly unlimited power to run struggling cities and school districts, he knew what he was doing.Roberts came before the Black Chamber of Commerce last month at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African...

Michael Burton learned the alphabet by repeating the letters stamped on the back of the automobiles he saw driving down street in his native Lansing, Michigan. “B-U-I-C-K” “F-O-R-D” “O-L-D-S-M-O-B-I-L-E” “C-H-E-V-R-O-L-E-T” Both his parents worked blue-collar jobs at Oldsmobile, his father in the forge....

Is Michigan on the comeback? As the rest of the country continues to struggle financially, the state is no stranger to the devastation of a disheveled economy. Facing a questionable future, Governor Rick Snyder has taken a step to do what he believes will restore and replenish Michigan’s diminished finances. On Thursday, Snyder...

Hiram E. Jackson - CHRONICLE PUBLISHERNo one makes it on their own. And the many great leaders, who walked the halls of the Michigan Chronicle before me, left a lasting mark on this organization and the community we serve. I am honored to have the opportunity to add to the legacy of this great institution.The Chronicle has always been known for...

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...

Life is a succession of fortunate circumstances. And when former Governor Jennifer Granholm issued an executive order, just before the 2006 campaign, calling for the creation of a “21st Century Energy Plan for Michigan” — the mission being to find alternative energy sources and greater energy efficiency — Louis E. James knew he had to...

Once rejected, now connected, Detroit is making a unique footprint on defining urban culture. With the announcement of the M-1 rail system, the city of Detroit is not only on the edge of becoming the business address of 25,000 new downtown residents, 200 new storefront businesses along Woodward Avenue and 20,000 new workers, but of...

The 49'ers played hard, however the Ravens came out the winners at the end of the Super Bowl game. However the real winners are the advertisers who spent up to four million dollars for a 30 second spot to show off their products to the nation.If you missed the best part of the super bowl in my opinion, CLICK HEREfor a playlist of all the ads that...