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A half century ago, “8 Mile” didn’t carry the same symbolic weight as it would in later years when the street came to mark the border of a Black city and white suburbs. Detroit’s ...
M-102 is an east–west state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan that runs along the northern boundary of Detroit following 8 Mile Road. The highway follows the Michigan Baseline , a part of the land survey of the state, and the roadway is also called Base Line Road in places.
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 ...
Livernois Avenue becomes less prominent as it crosses M-102 (8 Mile Road) into Ferndale, but is still lined with commercial businesses.Livernois then becomes a divided highway again at Marshall Street (between 8 and 9 Mile) and continues to be one until its first physical interruption at 9 Mile Road for a supermarket parking lot.
The Jason Hargrove Transit Center (JHTC) is a major public transit station in Detroit, Michigan, United States.It is the third iteration of the State Fair Transit Center, located at the old Michigan State Fairgrounds, [1] near the Gateway Marketplace and intersection of 8 Mile Road and Woodward Avenue.
The weather was perfect for the some 26,000 participants, and our award-winning Detroit Free Press photographers were out in full force to capture all the moments along the course.
The Detroit Eight Mile Wall, also referred to as Detroit's Wailing Wall, Berlin Wall or The Birwood Wall, is a one-foot-thick (0.30 m), six-foot-high (1.8 m) separation wall that stretches about 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) in length. 1 foot (0.30 m) is buried in the ground and the remaining 5 feet (1.5 m) is visible to the community.
Detroit is known worldwide as one of America’s top cities for street art, with hundreds of murals covering walls all around the region.. Here are just a few favorites, specifically in downtown ...