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Tlaib joins fight for $14 trillion in reparations for Black Americans
The Detroit Democrat joined U.S. Rep. Cori Bush in urging their colleagues to help atone for the practice of slavery and hundreds of years of racist policies
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, reparations, racism, Washington D.C., Reparations Now Resolution, Democrats
Detroit Reparations Task Force hears public proposals during first meeting
Eighty percent of Detroit voters approved a 2021 measure to study and address reparations
By Ken Coleman, Michigan Advance
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, reparations, The Detroit City Council Reparations Task Force, Michigan Democratic Party Black Caucus
While most Detroiters support reparations, a majority of white residents do not
Support for reparations in Detroit is linked to perceptions about racism’s ongoing impact
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Reparations, racism, Detroit, University of Michigan, survey
Officials look to ‘fill in the ditch’ that helped displace Black Detroiters with $105M project
The Black Bottom and Paradise Valley neighborhoods were ‘literally bulldozed’
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, reparations, Black Bottom, Paradise Valley, I-375
Detroit City Council sets up reparations task force
The body is charged with helping to determine how to address what many Detroiters said is a legacy of governmental systemic racism
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, reparations, City Council, Black Lives Matter
Detroiters overwhelmingly voted for reparations. What happens next?
Several questions now loom over Proposal R’s victory
By Eli Day
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, reparations, Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan, Proposal R, Cover Story
State House legislation would create reparations fund for Black Michigan residents
Tags: Politics & Elections, Reparations, Lansing, Michigan, Racial Equity and Reparations Fund Act, Cynthia Johnson, Shri Thanedar, State House, racism
Detroit voters overwhelmingly pass reparations proposal, but fail proposal that could fund it
By Alex Washington
Tags: Proposal R, Proposal S, Detroit, Elections, City Council, Reparations
‘A celebratory movement’: Detroiters advocate for reparations ballot proposal
By Anna Gustafson, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan Advance, Reparations, Detroit Elections, Elections 2021
Detroit Clerk candidate McCampbell blasts election officials for blocking reparations measure
Tags: Detroit, city clerk, Denzel McCampbell, election, Janice Winfrey, reparations, ballot initiative, Detroit Election Commission
Detroit City Council approves reparations measure, but challenges lie ahead
Tags: ballot initiative, reparations, racism, Detroit, Detroit City Council, Mary Sheffield
Detroit City Council debates ballot initiative for reparations for Black residents
Tags: Detroit, Detroit City Council, racism, slavery, reparations, Mary Sheffield
A wealthy white woman donated a 'sizable' portion of her inheritance to a Detroit nonprofit as reparations
By Ruth Terry, YES! Media
Tags: Malik Yakini, reparations, Detroit
How Mitch McConnell — and all white people — benefit from white supremacy at the expense of our Black neighbors
By Jeffrey C. Billman
Tags: Informed Dissent, Mitch McConnell, white supremacy, reparations
Detroit activist jumps into 2020 presidential race, advocating reparations
Tags: News Hits, Presidential race, Anita Belle, reparations, slavery, redlining, Detroit
The Dirty Show celebrates 25th anniversary with some of its greatest hits
By Lee DeVito
Corewell Health restores gender-affirming care after public backlash
Michigan Stadium taps country star Zach Bryan for its first-ever concert