Opinion

We're rallying our communities to mobilize and join the fight for some of the most critical issues of our times, including reproductive freedom.  

Environmental racism is defined as environmental injustice that occurs within a racialized context both in practice and policy.

The Michigan Legislative Black Caucus kept it 100.

Good News

Legendary musical genius Stevie Wonder will receive an honorary degree from Wayne State University.

Police Brutality

On April 25, two police officers in East Landing, Michigan, shot and injured 20-year-old Black man DeAnthony VanAtten in a Meijer supermarket parking lot. It started when officers answered a 911 call about a Black man with a gun. Now, police have released body camera footage of the shooting.

In Saginaw, Michigan, 61-year-old Kenneth David Pilon was charged with six counts of interfering with federally protected activities. He's accused of leaving racist notes, nooses, and lynching threats during 2020 protests over the murder of George Floyd.

The funeral for Patrick Lyoya, an unarmed black man shot in the head by Grand Rapids police, will be held at 11 am today at the Renaissance Church of God in Christ in Michigan.

Protests kicked off in Grands Rapids, Michigan, after the Grand Rapids Police Department released a video of an officer shooting a 26-year-old unarmed Black man in the head–the officer has not been charged.

Video footage has finally been released in the recent police shooting of an unarmed Black motorist in Michigan and confirms the officer shot him in the back of his head following a brief struggle in Grand Rapids.

A Lansing, Ohio white woman is facing serious prison time after she threatened several state Representatives through voicemail.

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31st District Judge Alexis G. Krot of Michigan berated 72-year-old Burhan Chowdhury, who suffers from cancer, and said she wanted to jail him because he was too weak to take care of the lawn in front of his home.

Good News

The space where Detroit’s first Black-owned bookstore lived has received a preservation grant from the National Park Service.