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Shinola Hotel partner responds to ‘baseless’ discrimination lawsuit

A Detroit man claims his resume was ignored by the luxury hotel until he resubmitted it with the white-sounding name “John Jebrowski”

By Lee DeVito
Jul 15, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Civil Rights, Labor, Shinola Hotel, Marko Law, racial discrimination in metro Detroit
Michigan

Young Black students frequently called n-word, ‘monkeys’ at rural Michigan school, lawsuit states

District administrators failed to protect the Black students, as young as 11, from rampant racism, according to the lawsuit

By Steve Neavling
Jul 10, 2024

Tags: Michigan, Civil Rights, News, Racism, Lawsuit, Marko Law, Livingston County, school, education, Pinckney Community Schools, Pathfinder Middle School, Navigator Upper Elementary School
Metro Detroit

Racial discrimination lawsuit filed against Shinola Hotel

Detroit resident Dwight Jackson says the luxury hotel ignored his resume until he reapplied as “John Jebrowski”

By Lee DeVito
Jul 3, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Civil Rights, Labor, Shinola Hotel, racial discrimination in metro Detroit, Marko Law
Metro Detroit

Clinton Township sued after cop permanently blinded a man after foot chase

Before the alleged assault, the officer yelled, ‘Yea, baby! Whooo!’

By Steve Neavling
Mar 6, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Jon Marko, Marko law, U.S. District Court, Clinton Township, police brutality in Michigan, Daniel Reiff, Broc Setty
Metro Detroit

Former Detroit boxer Ray Gray seeks new trial after 48 years in prison for murder he says he didn't commit

By Lee DeVito
Nov 29, 2021

Tags: Ray Gray, Detroit, Kym Worthy, Marko Law, true crime

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