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WEB2 days ago — Health care facility protesters have new restrictions in Detroit. Malachi Barrett has the latest from City Council: $8.5 million legal settlement, more delays for tow rate hikes, the fast track housing ordinance and a cleaner …
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WEBAbout Us. BridgeDetroit is a nonprofit community news, information and engagement media service in America’s largest majority African American city. All of BridgeDetroit’s content is anchored in an ongoing effort to engage Detroiters and identify the issues THEY see as crucial to their lives and to their understanding of the city’s civic ...
A freeway ripped the heart out of Black life in Detroit. Now …
WEBDec 1, 2021 — This story is published in collaboration with Grist.. In 1945 in Detroit, Michigan, a man who is believed to be the first African-American independent record producer opened up a blues and gospel record store called Joe’s Record Shop. The store was lined with vinyl records and music posters, with a big, upright piano in the back.
Built to keep Black from white: The story behind Detroit’s "Wailing ...
WEBJul 19, 2021 — Eighty years after a segregation wall rose in Detroit, America remains divided. That’s not an accident. (Detroit News; NBC News) This article was published in partnership with NBC News.. DETROIT — When they started building the wall behind Margaret Watson’s house in northwest Detroit, she knew the reason without having to ask.. As a child in the late 1930s, Watson had seen the new ...
Detroiters now have more ways to pay city income taxes
WEBFeb 7, 2023 — The City of Detroit and Michigan Department of Treasury said an electronic option is now in effect, allowing individual income taxpayers to pay by eCheck or with a debit or credit card. The service permits users to make estimated payments, annual return payments, proposed tax due payments, 10-day demand payments, and assessment or audit payments.
Meet Helen Moore: Detroit education activist and state elector
WEBDec 11, 2020 — The elector for Michigan’s 13th congressional district is none other than longtime Detroiter Helen Moore, 84, who has been an activist fighting to improve education for Black children for more than six decades. Moore spoke with BridgeDetroit ahead of the Dec. 14 vote about her experiences with racism, fighting to improve education for Detroit ...
Here’s who MDOT seated to advise on I-375 project in Detroit
WEBby Jena Brooker December 30, 2022 7:00 am. Design work got underway this spring for the reinvention of I-375 in Detroit. Credit: Courtesy images from DOT and Detroit Historical Society. The Michigan Department of Transportation has selected two dozen people for a community advisory committee that will advise on transforming Interstate 375 into ...
WEBThe purpose of this resolution is to help establish processes, develop, and implement community reparations in Detroit for mass-historic unjust treatment of Detroit’s majority Black population; and. WHEREAS, Assuming and strongly supporting the successful overturning of Michigan’s state constitutional ban on any racial or other affirmative ...
Understanding why Detroit floods and why it keeps happening
WEBJul 13, 2021 — It was the second time a so-called 100-year rain event occurred in the past decade. The last time was August 2014. Heavy rains in metro Detroit have caused massive flooding in homes, streets and freeways at least four times since 2016. The unprecedented amounts of rain are overwhelming an aging public infrastructure.
Black developers carve out a place for residents in Detroit’s future
WEBMar 31, 2022 — In his 2022 State of the City Address, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan highlighted 33 Black developers in Detroit. Together, they have invested over $500 million in housing, mixed-use and commercial spaces across Detroit. “Black developers with Black ownership are rebuilding the city,” Duggan said during the March 9 address.