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Detroit City Is the Place to Be (1st ed.). New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-0-8050-9229-5. Woodford, Arthur M (2001). This Is Detroit, 1701-2001. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814329146. Sugrue, Thomas J (2005). The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.
The Eight Mile-Wyoming area historically represented an empowering area for Black home development and ownership in the 1920s and 1930s. Horace White, a leading Detroit minister and the first black member of the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC), states it represented an important place of black settlement "because it was their one opportunity, as they saw it, to own their own homes and rear ...
The city of Detroit is split into seven council districts. The Detroit Demolition Program targeted all of these districts. Each region had between 1,500-3,000 demolitions. [9] [10] These demolitions were contracted to numerous companies with $90 million [7] [8] going to businesses that started up in Detroit. Most of these funds come from a ...
The 90-plus-minute “Live From Detroit: The Concert at Michigan Central” on Thursday night celebrated the city’s refurbished train station, which reopens to the public on Friday, six years ...
Slum Village members Young RJ, left, and T3, sit with Illa J during a ceremony before the "Live From Detroit: The Concert at Michigan Central" at Roosevelt Park in front of the Michigan Central ...
Detroit received widespread acclaim for its leadership in the program, which used $490 million to try to turn a 9 sq mi (23 km 2) section of the city (with 134,000 inhabitants) into a model city. [8] In Atlanta there was a battle between competing visions. The city's political and business elite, and city planners, along with Atlanta's black ...
SPRING SCHEDULE: Grapefruit League in 2024 begins Feb. 24 in Lakeland Tigers play-by-play radio announcer Dan Dickerson talks on camera during Detroit Tigers spring training on Wednesday, March 16 ...
The 2023 event was scheduled for Saturday, August 5, 2023, at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, thus returning SummerSlam to the month of August. [31] The 2023 event would break the 2021 event's record to become the highest-grossing SummerSlam of all time, as well as the highest-grossing event outside of WrestleMania. [32]