Detroit, Michigan

After Detroit bankruptcy, city’s minorities eye opportunities

Ethnic media publishers and editors say the city’s challenges have given ethnic minorities the chance to open and grow businesses, buy homes and help revitalize Detroit.

Detroit residents remain resilient as city files for bankruptcy

Street Fighting Man: A Detroit Documentary

Mayor David Bing on the Future of Detroit

Detroit Avoids State Takeover

Inside/Out Project Displays Art on Detroit Streets

Great works of art have come to the streets of Detroit as part of a new exhibition called  Inside/Out. Proving  that art can also be enjoyed outside of museum walls, The Detroit Institute of Arts has brought life-size reproductions of famous masterpieces to the streets, parks and concrete facades of Detroit.  This is the second year for the […]

‘Northern Lights 1996′ Explores Students’ Rights, Then and Now

Half a century ago, as Martin Luther King Jr. marched on Washington and Freedom Riders tested the desegregation of interstate buses, students at a Detroit high school stood up for their rights, and won. Finding the facilities and education at their school inferior to what was available at predominately white schools, they staged a walk-out, […]

Detroit: Reinventing the Smaller City

According to the most recent Census data, the city of Detroit lost over 237,000 people over the past decade. Today, the Motor City has a population of only 713,777, making Detroit America’s 18th  most populated city. The Census findings fit nicely into the narrative of Detroit as a modern-day ghost town. However, say argue that the […]

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Green Cars I: The Detroit Auto Show

Emilia Askari takes Living On Earth on a tour of this year’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit, where she finds that auto makers seem to be taking eco-friendliness much more seriously.

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A Repurposed Life

A movie theatre built from salvaged parts stirs up thoughts on the ecological imperative of loving garbage.