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To focus on community life and the city’s future after bankruptcy, five nonprofit media outlets have formed the Detroit Journalism Cooperative (DJC).
The Center for Michigan’s Bridge Magazine is the convening partner for the group, which includes Detroit Public Television (DPTV), Michigan Radio, WDET and New Michigan Media, a partnership of ethnic and minority newspapers.
Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the DJC partners are reporting about and creating community engagement opportunities relevant to the city’s bankruptcy, recovery and restructuring.
Articles
Top of the pecking order: Meet your Detroit Chicken
Which came first, the artist or the egg? High art generates a new breed of chicken for a Detroit urban farm.
That Detroit rarity: a home mortgage
Can you call it a comeback if mortgages are only written in a few communities? Several years into a downtown recovery, neighborhood mortgage lending remains “pathetic.”
One promise Mike Duggan can’t keep?
Detroit’s mayor has said early and often he should be judged by whether Detroit gains population. So far, it hasn’t.
How Trump can help Detroit
Suffice to say, Detroit did not go Donald Trump’s way last November. But the new president promised to bring more jobs, better schools and safer streets to African-American communities. We asked Detroit residents and civic leaders what making Detroit great again might look like.
Detroit churches face off with mayor over spike in water bills
Noah had to deal with a deluge. So do Detroit faith leaders, in the form of sharply rising bills to cover stormwater runoff. The city is offering help, but some say they fear closure.
How one businesswoman is drawing inspiration from a legendary madam
Bailey Sisoy Isgro never knew Helen McGowan, the infamous “Motor City Madam,” whose women catered to Detroit’s discretion-seeking power brokers. But her brothel is fueling another potent business.
Refugees in Michigan by the numbers
People from six of seven countries named in President Trump’s temporary immigration ban have come to Michigan in the last 15 years. Here are the data.
Black flight to suburbs masks lingering segregation in metro Detroit
Residential racism may be less overt than in the 1960s, but whites still live among whites, and blacks among blacks, 50 years after the violence of 1967.
Will Detroit school board candidates choose to fight or unite?
Some of the 63 candidates for school board want to carry on the fight against the state’s financial oversight. Others vow to work within the state’s restrictions. See our database on each candidate.
The War on Crime, not crime itself, fueled Detroit’s post-1967 decline
In this Q-and-A, historian and National Book Award finalist Heather Ann Thompson argues that draconian police tactics in black Detroit neighborhoods had as much to do with the city’s decimation as white flight and lost jobs
Three prison reform ideas drawing bipartisan support
Increasingly, policymakers across the political spectrum are coalescing around specific areas to reduce prison populations and successfully integrate inmates back in their communities.
School choice, metro Detroit’s new white flight
Nearly 50 years after the racial tumult of 1967, state schools of choice policies are helping to create more racially segregated districts in metro Detroit and beyond.
DATABASE: How 'school choice' has changed Michigan districts
See how school choice has changed racial demographics in some districts across the region
Walking back segregation in Ferndale schools
Ferndale, an inner-ring suburb popular with Detroit students, is taking bold steps to desegregate its schools.
Hatch contest leans toward white winners in majority black Detroit
The $50,000 Hatch Detroit competition has helped startups launch creative businesses in the thriving central city. But winning entries for entrepreneurs of color in Detroit’s neighborhoods have proven more elusive.
The Detroit Historical Museum wants your story from the summer of ‘67
The museum is collecting oral histories from Detroit and suburban residents who lived through the chaos and pain of the disturbances that took place in Detroit that summer as its 50th anniversary nears.