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http://news.streetroots.org/2018/04/27/detroits-canary-mine-portland-says-water-equality-activist I’m always happening upon familiar faces from UMich in the city. This time, it was my dear saintly chum, Luke Liu. I was overjoyed to see him, and I demanded we go get pizza at the Woodward mainstay, Sgt. Pepperoni’s, to celebrate. As we caught up on our way, Luke asks me the question […]

The article I chose to write about was recently published online on The Economist. You can take a look here if you’re interested: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/07/07/why-detroit-is-the-most-expensive-city-in-america-to-buy-car-insurance The article discusses how car insurance rates in Detroit are at four times the national average, and make up to 21% of Detroit resident’s pre-tax income, at over $5,000. This causes

For this week’s blog post I wanted to find an article about mental health issues in Detroit. I found the article “Legislature threatens to pour gas on mental health fire”. The focus of my post will not be on how the legislature threatens to make it worse but on the fire that we currently have

Culture is something that shapes so much of the fabric of our lives, and many times it without us realizing it. Though one might immediately think of traditions and events when culture is mentioned, there are other cultures we don’t think about as often- and yet encounter in our day to days. For example, the

Article: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2018/07/03/crews-prepare-unfinished-jail-detroit-demolition/756430002/ This article is centered around the jail that was supposed to be built just a few blocks away from the Wayne State Campus. If you drive past it now, you can see what the rows of cells look like within a jail. Like any Detroiter knows, building this jail would be a huge

https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/12/01/volkswagen-emissions-scandal/909738001/ The above link connects to an article about how Michigan should use money it received from the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal. If you are unfamiliar, a few years ago Volkswagen was caught using a device in its cars that would allow the cars to cheat on emissions tests, allowing them to pass when the cars

There are many different cultural aspects that can be seen at Parkside. There are people of all ages, which allows for different cultures to come together. People in this community speak to everyone they see, and many will strike up an entire conversation with someone they just met. This really exemplifies the inclusive culture at

This week, while still making strides to collect current, intelligent data about environmental neurotoxins and criminality, I felt overwhelmed by the prospect of finding a strong correlation and still being stuck feeling hopeless for the cause. For many people in the affected areas, particularly in 48217, it’s already evident that air/ water pollution and hazardous

Hello, it is I turning in a late blog — I am so sorry! I will do better next week. Anywhose let’s talk about culture. My perspectives on culture have always been interesting as a Black woman from the African diaspora that grew up in a predominantly white town in Michigan then moved to the

In the time we have been here in Detroit, most if not all of us have been hearing various stories about this city and allowing the residents of the various communities we work in to deconstruct the narratives we initially had about Detroit. In their place now are new narratives, more true and personal to