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Wayne State stops students, faculty from holding pro-Palestinian vigil

The crackdown is just the latest example of WSU silencing voices for Gaza

New documentary, investigation revisit 1974 murder of Donald Goines in Highland Park

Goines was a prolific but underappreciated writer who helped shape the genre of urban fiction

DJ House Shoes to be celebrated with 50th birthday bash in Detroit

The party is set to feature Black Milk, Fat Ray, Stretch Money, members of D12, and more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald turns 100.
From the “Roaring Twenties,” this great American novel endures
By Joe Lapointe
Image: Big Sean goes higher with debut book
By Kahn Santori Davison
Image: Excerpt: New book ‘Plundered’ examines the racist policies behind Detroit’s foreclosure crisis
By Bernadette Atuahene
Duval Street is the spine and urethra of Key West.
By Bill Shea
The cover of Darren McCarty: Life is a Grind, Enjoy My Truth.
By Kara Frank
Chris Cornell 660 W. Baltimore St., Detroit “On a raised platform in the back corner of Northern Lights Lounge sits a red leather booth. In the booth, on May 18, 2017, the lead singer of Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, sat with his bandmates. This was just prior to the band’s gig at the Fox Theatre, and the booth could very well be where Cornell had his last meal.”
By Layla McMurtrie
Detroit King Tape.
By Eddie B. Allen Jr.
Jerjuan Howard plans to open the Howard Family Bookstore in a recently purchased building on Detroit’s westside.
By Layla McMurtrie
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
By Layla McMurtrie
Image: The last word on the MC5
By Caryn Rose
Investigative reporter Jordan Chariton with his new book, We the Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans.
By Steve Neavling
Robert L. Allen in 1967.
By Herb Boyd
Image: The day Detroit fell without firing a shot
By Robert Downes
Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley, left, speaks with U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty J. Walsh and Congressman Dan Kildee.
By Jordan Chariton
Detroit journalist Tracie McMillan’s new book is The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America.
By Layla McMurtrie
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Wayne State stops students, faculty from holding pro-Palestinian vigil

By Steve Neavling

Image: Wayne State stops students, faculty from holding pro-Palestinian vigil

New documentary, investigation revisit 1974 murder of Donald Goines in Highland Park

By Steve Neavling

Image: New documentary, investigation revisit 1974 murder of Donald Goines in Highland Park

DJ House Shoes to be celebrated with 50th birthday bash in Detroit

By Lee DeVito

Image: DJ House Shoes to be celebrated with 50th birthday bash in Detroit

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