DETROIT >> Deborah Chenault Green is 62, a writer. But 50 years ago she was a pre-teen, sleeping on the porch to escape the oppressive heat, awakening to see a sky that glowed unnaturally. Azerine ...

On the surface, Detroit was progressive and its race relations harmonious, at least compared to Southern cities that had been rocked by the civil rights movement and to riot-scarred communities like ...

*The cast of Kathryn Bigelow’s “Untitled Detroit Riots Project” movie is rounding out, with Jeremy Strong, Chris Chalk and Austin Hébert joining Ephraim Sykes, Laz Alonso, Nathan Davis Jr., Malcolm ...

The Zoot Suit Riots, a series of violent clashes that erupted in Los Angeles in June 1943, remain a stark reminder of racial tensions, wartime anxieties, and the consequences of systemic ...

In the tattered basement of an inner-city home, a young black family and their friends talked about love, death, race and their dreams of a modest future together as budding entrepreneurs. But through ...

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Detroit — Alice Brown recalls looters driving past her house on the city's west side with their vehicles loaded with washers and dryers that were stolen from a nearby furniture store, while her father ...

A Detroit building that survived the 1967 riots has been restored into 47 affordable apartments, with more than 200 Detroiters gaining hands-on job training through the project. Weston Hall, built in ...

John Boyega has already cemented his sci-fi future by signing on for Pacific Rim 2 and at least two more Star Wars movies (unless Finn never wakes up from that coma, which would be a shockingly grim ...